[Nottingham] changing channels on wi-fi card

Jon Masters nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Sep 18 09:17:02 2003


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Tony Leake wrote:

> I have just discovered that I can change the channel if I first set the card 
> to ad-hoc mode (i have  have to enter an essid to do this )

This is because in Infrastructure mode the card will automatically choose
the channel based on beacon broadcasts from the configured basestation.

Jon.