[ale] Wifi weirdness

[James Sumners]

The orinoco driver just plain sucks. It just barely supports wireless. You say
the card is a Prism2 card? Check out http://prism54.org (when it comes back
online). The Prism2 driver is a helluva lot better and if it will work with your
card I suggest changing drivers.

On 23 Dec 2004 12:51:13 -0700
Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:

> Richard <ratcheson at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:58 pm, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > > After iwconfig'ing the card as similarly as I can, iwconfig reveals
> > > that the card is configured identically in each case, except that the
> > > "Frequency" is set to 2.437Ghz on laptop A, 2.422Ghz on laptop B. This
> > > seems the only pertinent difference between the two cases, but
> > > iwconfig cannot change the frequency in either case ("operation not
> > > supported"). So I am confused as to (a) how and why the frequency
> > > would be set differently on the two machines, (b) how to change this,
> > > and (c) whether there is some underlying issue that I need to address.
> > 
> > They are set on different channels.  A is on  channel 6 and B is on channel 
> > 3.  
> > You can use iwconfig wlan0 channel nn
> > to set the channel no.  That's assuming wlan0 is your wifi card.
> 
> You'd think so, wouldn't you? But "iwconfig eth0 channel 1"
> complains "operation not supported". (BTW eth0 is definitely the
> wifi card; there isn't another NIC in the machine, and
> "iwconfig eth0 essid FOO" works fine.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe


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