Re: Wireless problems, orinoco chipset

[Ben Southwood <ben@ausipos.com>]

David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:36:13AM +0000, ben wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am having a little dificulty setting up my wireless network under Debian 
> > woody kernel 2.4.18bf (Ithink!)
> >
> > when i run iwconfig i get this reply:
> >
> > Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 12
> > of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> > Some things may be broken...
> >
> > eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""  Nickname:"HERMES I"
> >         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >         Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
> >         Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >         Encryption key:off
> >         Power Management:off
> >         Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:134/153  Noise level:134/153
> >         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> > whatever is broken is stopping me from putting in my ESSID, not sure about 
> > other things, I know i can still set my Mode.
>
>
> What happens when you try?

nothing!
when i type iwconfig eth1 ESSID MYNETWORK
ESSID just remains at ESSID ""

for some weird reason I have to keep my network settings on this machine (in redhat at least) as managed or it doesn't work, even tho its a peer to peer network and the other machine is set to Ad-hoc, I don't think this is relevant in this case tho..
> > how do I go about changing the driver for version 15? or vice versa, how do 
> > I go about changing iwconfig back to version 12?
>
>
> This isn't to do with the driver, it's just the version of wireless
> extensions the kernel was compiled with as opposed to that the tools
> were compiled with.  I wouldn't really expect it to cause a problem in
> this case.

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