comp.os.linux.networking

InuY4sha wrote:

> Hi Joerg ...  I tried your solution with
> wireless_tools.23.tar.gz; Now iwconfig gives me the following
>
> Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version 0
> of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 13.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  Nickname:""
> Mode:Auto  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00Bit Rate=281.017Mb/
> s
> Tx-Power=0 dBm
> Retry:on   RTS thr=281016528 B   Fragment thr=281016528 B
> Power Management00:00:00:00:00:00:on
> Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> and I still can't set any of the parameters with iwconfig ( it
> accepts it but doesn't change what I want.. ).
>
> I would like to detail a couple of things here:
> 1) the diff of the wireless.h in the kernel sources & in
> compiler sources with the one in the wireless tools is now *the
> same* : same version and same stuff inside.
> 2) I don't really know what the problem could be and it's in
> fact very difficult to know due to the following reason: the
> wireless driver I'm using atm is *really not standard*; it looks
> like it's been wrapped from orinoco, but I'm not really sure
> about the behaviour.. in any case I'm stuck to this driver and
> must use it...
>
Hm, looking at the wireless_tools site gives the impression that
2.4.19 needs the WE-14 + WE-13 bug fix patch (see section kernel
2.4.x patches), so basically you should need wirless_tools v24. I
remember that wireless_tools and 2.4 kernels were a PITA. You
could try wireless_tools >= 27, since it supports multiple
versions of WE.

Joerg
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