Thus spake Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 00:19]:
: > Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more:
: >
: >     SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE  S:N   INT CAPS
: >     linksys         00:06:25:7b:25:3d    6   11M 35:0   100 E
: >     MYSSID          00:12:17:85:9a:3b   11   54M 39:0   100 E
: >     wahoo62         00:13:46:47:0f:0e   11   54M  4:0   100 EPS
: >
: > I'd have thought that a S:N of 39:0 wouldn't be all that weak, no?  Looking
: > at a post by Sam this past August, he calls 30:0 "very strong", though that
: > was for an 802.11b link.  I'd think that the higher the number, the
: > stronger the signal.  Is the above too weak to handle a full 54Mbps link?
:  
: Which SSID? MYSSID?
: The linksys one looks like b only. 
: The other 2 look like g.

MYSSID.  It's the one I posted about originally.  linksys is definitely b
only.

: Are you sure your card supports g? It may be able to see a g AP but only 
: connects and b speeds.

Yep.  It's an AR5212:

    ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
    ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd8100000-0xd810ffff irq 28 at device 4.0 on pci10
    ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:20:71:ed
    ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6

: What does ifconfig -m ath0 say?

The full text (as it's unsurprisingly long) is up at:

    <http://www.afflictions.org/~dgerow/ifconfig.ath0>

Here's the bits I'm going to assume you're specifically interested in:

-----
ath0: flags=28943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMISC> mtu 
1500
        inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe20:71ed%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
        inet 192.168.132.146 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.132.255
        ether 00:0f:b5:20:71:ed
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <monitor>
        status: associated
        supported media:
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt monitor
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt adhoc
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect
<snip>
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt monitor
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt adhoc
                media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
<snip>
                media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt monitor
                media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc
                media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt hostap
                media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt adhoc
                media DS/11Mbps mode 11b
<snip>
                media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt monitor
                media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc
                media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt hostap
                media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt adhoc
                media autoselect mode autoselect
        ssid "" channel 5
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF NULL 1:40-bit NULL 2:40-bit
        NULL 3:40-bit NULL 4:40-bit txpowmax 30 protmode CTS burst
        bintval 100
-----

  - Damian
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