From: Alan Wilkie (alanobjcomp.com.au)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 16:33:39 CST

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Michael,

>on my client:
>
>Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 72 140 9 ]
>Card info: [ PRISM3 (USB), Firmware 1.5.6 ]
>
>and on my server it looks like this:
>
>Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 81 27 ]
>Card info: [ PRISM2.5 ISL3874A(Mini-PCI),
>Firmware 1.3.6 ]
>
>my server is in master mode...:
>
>Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc, 6=Host AP): [ 6 ]
>
>maybe your card was in Host AP mode?
>
>
That's interesting, my cards are actually running a point-to-point link
and are configured in IBSS mode. It had occured to me that maybe the
numbers didn't make sense in IBSS mode, but it used to work so I
wondered why it had changed. I have since tried the card in a Windows
machine running NetStumbler and it gives sensible readings for signal
strength and noise, so the information is apparently still available
from the card somewhere/somehow.

>btw. why did you change the firmware? was something not working before?
>
>
I was getting intermittent lock ups. Initially I was using WEP and
apparently 1.4.9 had some problem with WEP. I've since switched to
IPsec, but was still getting the odd freeze now and then. I haven't
been running the new firmware long enough to know for sure whether it's
made any difference or not.

Alan

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