[Gllug] Wireless Puzzle

[Steve Nelson]

On 11/10/05, Russell Howe <rhowe at siksai.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:41:49PM +0000, Steve Nelson wrote:
> >  iwconfig ra0 | grep -Ei 'rate|qual'
> > Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
>
> Hm.. is this an autoselected rate?

Yes... it seems to change if I move the machine around.

> I know I had terrible performance on Linux using madwifi when I told it
> to run at 54Mbit/s. Once I'd changed it back to automatic rate
> determination, it worked a treat.
>
> > Link Quality=51/100 Signal level=-91 dBm Noise level:-220 dBm
>
> Don't know about OpenBSD, but with madwifi on linux, a link quality of
> 50 is stupendous.

Hmm.  I am seriously considering obtaining a different card... but
this one is *supposed* to work with Linux - I'm sure I must just be
making some very subtle and/or obvious mistake.

> Russell Howe

S.
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