Hi all,
Tonight I successfully set up my Airport network under Linux on my
TiBook. I've used Benh's latest tree (today at 2.4.4-pre3), which has
the Airport driver hidden under 'Network devices', 'PCMCIA', 'Wireless',
'Hermes support'. Once I found it, it worked very well so far ;-)
Configuration is rather straight-forward with the wireless tools.
However, I get rather low signal quality readings:
pooh:~# iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:deleted Nickname:deleted
Frequency:2.412GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
Access Point: some MAC
Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:kidding?
Power Management:off
Link quality:31/92 Signal level:-67 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm
^^^^^ ^^^^
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
This is with the TiBook 1 to 1.5 meters away from the base station; it
hardly improves if I move them closer.
Anybody else got experiences with this stuff? What quality readings are
you getting? By the way, the readings are almost the same for 2 Mb/s.
On a related note, wireless tools as found in testing do their job, but
segfault on exit. Anyone else seen this? I've not yet tried to recompile
myself, or otherwise debug what's up.
Thanks, and cheers
Michel
PS Under MacOS, though I don't have a numeric value, I get maybe 70-80%
maximum quality, next to the base....
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