Here's my problem (in more details) with my airport card on an 802.11b
environment:
Upon loading airport module (2.4.20-ben5) I get the following in dmesg:
airport.c 0.11b (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0046
eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.70
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:28:76:E4
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
airport: card registered for interface eth1
This looks perfectly fine.
Then, upon entering this:
iwconfig eth1 essid "rover"
iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 nick "eric-ibook"
iwconfig eth1 key off
<iwconfig eth0> outputs:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"rover" Nickname:"eric-ibook"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz 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
which looks still ok.
I then put eth0 up:
ifconfig eth1 194.2.198.143 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
and <iwconfig eth1> gives me:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"rover" Nickname:"eric-ibook"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
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
and nothing works (I can't ping anything).
Access Point is now 44:44:44:44:44:44, which I don't explain. More
importantly, "Link Quality" is 0/92 and "Noise level" is 134/153. I
don't know what this exactly means but that doesn't sound good to me!
Do I have an antenna problem? Any ideas where my problem comes from?
Thx.
--
Eric
