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From: David Gibson (david_at_gibson.dropbear.id.au)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 18:38:46 CDT

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    On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:35:41PM -0500, Jones MB wrote:
    > is it recommended practice to manually set the bit rate of a wireless
    > card? in the startup scripts I have specified "auto" for the bit
    > rate. when I run iwconfig on the interface, I see that it connects at
    > 2Mbps. when I run "iwconfig eth3 rate 11M" the rate does not change from
    > 2Mbps.
    >
    > I recently did a kernel upgrade (2.4.7 to 2.4.18). The driver was upgraded
    > from 0.07 to 0.12b. Before the upgrade I was able to change the
    > speed. Does the newer version of the driver/kernel prevent rate changes
    > with iwconfig?
    >
    > The Linux system has a Lucent silver card with firmware 7.28. The
    > orinoco_cs driver is 0.12b. The Linux system talks to an iBook with an
    > Airport card. The iBook is running OS X. The two systems communicate in
    > Ad-hoc mode. There is no AP. The PCMCIA stuff is 3.1.22. WEP is off.
    >
    > Everything works (albeit slower than I would like it to) and has been
    > working for years. I am just trying to make it work a little quicker.

    Use 0.11b, not 0.12b. The 0.12 versions may be considered a failed
    experiment... 

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