Wireless - Was [Re: DSL]

[John Dangler]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 04:51 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 03:45 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > 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?
> The channels on the wireless equate to different frequencies, and the
> only channel that I can get any decent signal on at all is channel 6 (it
> defaults to channel 11, but even the doze box doesn't work on that one).

Very odd... I put the wireless into dhcp mode instead of static ip.
Updated the configuration.  No change.  Restarted networking.  No
change.  Went to a command line and typed iwconfig mode Ad-Hoc.  My
signal indicator on the desktop jumped to 100%!
I still can't ping anything at all (not even the router), so the
conclusion is - Linux will NOT work wireless (IPW2100) in static IP
mode.  So, I need to be able to have the router handle both static and
dhcp simultaneously... Does anyone know whether this is possible?  I
have a Linksys WRVS4400N router
> 
> > 
> > Matthew Flaschen
> > 
> 
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