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

[Dr. Thomas Bruns]

Thanks for this Information, but unfortenately it does not answer the 
central question:
 > 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!
Since both cards's "advanced settings"  do not support the setting of a bit 
rate I hope there exists another way to make them talk ++fast++ to each 
other (with Win98 it works). After all my request is still well below 
linuxant's speed limit ;^) .

any hint is appreciated!

Thomas




----- Original Message -----
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
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