Another NetworkManager question

[Brian Millett]

> 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


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