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Author: Bryce C
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Subject: General wireless questions
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You might try using wlanctl-ng to change card parameters. I have to use
it with my Prism2.5usb thing in order to enable it and set it to join
wireless networks.

Warranty: If this messes up your card, I'm very sorry but don't say I
didn't warn you. There is no warranty provided with this response.

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:16, Matt Alexander wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Entelin wrote:
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> > I have gotten my wireless card working fine with the orinoco_cs driver,
> > and gotten it to connect to my linksys AP.
> >
> > However strangely I cant change the channel on the card, its always at
> > 10, if I try with 'iwconfig eth1 channel 1' it will give an operation
> > not permitted. One time it automaticly switched to 1 (the channel the A=

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> > runs on by default) and ran fine.
> >
> > If I change the AP to channel 10 it works fine right away.
> >
> > Am I missing something? Is it supposed to just switch channels
> > automaticly? Do I have to tell it to scan the channels? This is my firs=

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> > experience with wireless under any system.
> >
> > I think thats really my only issue, when I am on channel 10 everything
> > works even WEP.
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> I've encountered limitations on setting other parameters of wireless
> cards such as the RCS or frag threshold, but I've never seen a card deny
> setting the channel. This isn't something silly like running iwconfig as
> a regular user is it? What distro are you running? For example, in RH
> you can set your wireless options in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<dev>
> What happens when you set the channel in the config file?
> ~M
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