On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:52:43PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > I have tried the netgear's with hostap and no go, orinocco driver only.
[snip] > As for the orinocco driver, the one in the kernel is not the best 11b or > 11c I think, get the one from the web site 13c and it works a charm, > haven't had a problem with it, 631Kb/s. I have a Prism2-based D-Link DWL650 pcmcia card (via a d-link dwl-500 pcmcia->pci bridge) in one of my machines and a netgear fm114p as an AP. I seem to be getting ~450K/s. The signal strength as reported by iwconfig et al is 58/90. Being new to wireless, is this speed normal/low/doing well? I'm currently using the wlan-ng stuff and this works fine with this card. No stability issues when transferring gigs of data. Needing a bit more speed and encouraged by your post I downloaded the latest orinoco driver from http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/ (13e) and gave it a try but could not for the life of me get it working with WEP. Transfer rates were ~ 100K/s greater with this new driver but this was without WEP (I don't know how much of an overhead the WEP stuff actually is). Much tinkering with iwconfig has shown that even though the key in use is the same as displayed when using the wlan-ng drivers there is just no love. There was a suggestion to use the passphrase (via the s:blah option) instead of the key explicitly but that didn't seem to make any difference either. Not having the time to spend on this I have gone back to the wlan-ng cs driver. Anyone go any tips? If I'm definitely going to get that extra 100K/s then I'll definitely invest some more time debugging this thing. Cheers, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
