Wireless - Was [Re: DSL]

[Matthew Flaschen]

John Dangler wrote:
>>> Why 102?  The internal net is 192...
>> I know!  Your original posting has 102, which is what bewilders me.  I
>> was recommending changes to make your network consistent (if strange and
>> possibly vulnerable).
> wow.. sorry about that... i must have fat-fingered the number... it's
> definitely 192.

That's okay.  I figured that was what you meant.  It looks okay then.

>>>> Apparently:
>>>>
>>>> iwconfig eth1 essid mgj_ventures channel 6 key BADF00D
>>>>
>>>> (BADFOOD should be replaced with your key) does it though.
>>> iwconfig eth1 essid mgj_ventures channel 6 - returns
>>> Error for wireless request "Set Frequency (8B04)L
>>> SET failed on device eth1; Operation not supported
>> I believe that's a limitation of the card or driver.  The man page says
>> "All these parameters and statistics are device dependent. Each driver
>> will provide only some of them depending on hardware support, and the
>> range of values may change."
> yikes!  I'll have to see if I can, in fact, change that channel with
> ipw2100... If not, I'm doomed to only DHCP for wireless on this laptop.

Channel doesn't have anything do with DHCP.  Why can't you change the
channel on the wireless router?

Matthew Flaschen

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