[driverloader] unable to change Bit rate (802.11g)

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

most NDIS drivers do not allow to change the rate this way. Sometimes, there
are options in the advanced driver settings that can affect the rate. You
can access these settings through the web configurator when you click on
"advanced settings". This modifies the configuration file in
"/etc/driverloader/config".

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Thomas Bruns" <th.bruns at freenet.de>
To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:14 PM
Subject: [driverloader] unable to change Bit rate (802.11g)


Hello,

I'm testing the linuxant driverloader for several days now but I semm to be
unable to
change the bitrate of my two cards.

I've got a PC with a D-Link DWL-G520 saying
eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"mynet"  Nickname:"mynick"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Bit Rate=108Mb/s
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:1/1  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-200 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and a notebook (Toshiba) with a NetGear WG511GR saying
eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"mynet  Nickname:"mynick"
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.457GHz  Cell: 0A:3B:35:28:08:DF
           Bit Rate=54Mb/s
           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           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

On both boxes a command like "iwconfig eth[0|1] rate 54M" or "iwconfig
eth[0|1] rate 11M"
goes without any consequence. The output of iwconfig is unchanged.
So my question before getting a permanent license is:
How can I make the two cards speak with each other at 54Mb/s (nominal) rate!


(I had them talking at 11Mb/s before, don't know how exactly they both got
that setting)
BTW I just updated to driverloader-1.52 to no avail.

TIA
Thomas