Hello, I am having a problem connecting to nodes and I think it might be a signal strength issue. I have a 19 dB antenna connected to a 15 dBm pci card. The card is an SMC 2602 PCI card attached to my fedora box. In monitor mode with Kismet I can pick up a good 30 base stations from my location on the waterfront of Treasure Island (Three of which are SFLan nodes coming from the North Beach area).
The problem is that I can not connect to anything. I have confirmed that my driver (ADMTek 8211) works by connecting successfully to the base station in my room. Anything else I just cannot connect to. The only reason I can think of is that the nodes around me are transmitting at a much higher power than I am. This would be the only reason I could think of why I can see them in monitor mode, but not broadcast to them. If they were transmitting at 200 mw they would have a good 8 dBm of power on me. Is this a reasonable diagnosis and would this mean that if I had a 200 mw card I could get my signal to them? Is there a reasonably priced 200 mw PCI card out there without having to drop $70 on a pcmcia Bridge card? Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Rob Forrest -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
