Another NetworkManager question

[W. Guy Thomas]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:26 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:02 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> >> > How is it possible that iwconfig and NM applet show conflicting
> >> information ? In this case at least a 30% signal strength means that
> >> NM applet information is actually incorrect.
> >>
> >> Orinoco cards have problems.  My orinoco card (and I've had the same
> >> report from 2 other people) will refuse to associate with an AP when
> >> its  strength is low.  However, it will report being connected to an
> >> AP when it  clearly cannot be.  For example:
> >>
> >
> > hmmmm.  I have a Symbol wireless card which uses orinoco_cs.  At this
> > point (after having several problems with said driver/card and
> > NetworkManager, and reading comments like Dan's...), I'm thinking I need
> > to use a better driver.  Are there better alternatives to orinoco_cs?
> > Would NdisWrapper be a better choice?
> 
> 
> wget http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz
> cd orinoco-0.15rc2
> make KERNEL_SRC=/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build all
> make KERNEL_SRC=/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build install
> init 6
> 
> Then you'll be set.  Works for my  Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
> chipset.
> 
> [bpm]$ sudo iwlist eth1 scan
> eth1      Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:02:2D:31:39:60
>                     ESSID:"RunAway"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Frequency:2.437GHz (Channel 6)
>                     Signal level:57/153  Noise level:14/153
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
>           Cell 02 - Address: 00:06:25:64:E7:36
>                     ESSID:"linksys"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Frequency:2.437GHz (Channel 6)
>                     Signal level:17/153  Noise level:13/153
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
>           Cell 03 - Address: 00:0D:72:08:39:79
>                     ESSID:"2WIRE477"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Frequency:2.457GHz (Channel 10)
>                     Signal level:18/153  Noise level:15/153
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:22Mb/s
>           Cell 04 - Address: 00:0F:3D:4A:06:8A
>                     ESSID:"Ronnie's House"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Frequency:2.427GHz (Channel 4)
>                     Signal level:16/153  Noise level:14/153
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian Millett
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> 
> 
> 

interesting, I wonder why mine works outta the box?

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=Guy
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