Re: Wireless tools

InuY4sha wrote:

Hi Joerg ...  I tried your solution with
wireless_tools.23.tar.gz; Now iwconfig gives me the following

Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version 0
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 13.
Some things may be broken...

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  Nickname:""
Mode:Auto  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00Bit Rate=281.017Mb/
s
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry:on   RTS thr=281016528 B   Fragment thr=281016528 B
Power Management00:00:00:00:00:00:on
Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and I still can't set any of the parameters with iwconfig ( it
accepts it but doesn't change what I want.. ).

I would like to detail a couple of things here:
1) the diff of the wireless.h in the kernel sources & in
compiler sources with the one in the wireless tools is now *the
same* : same version and same stuff inside.
2) I don't really know what the problem could be and it's in
fact very difficult to know due to the following reason: the
wireless driver I'm using atm is *really not standard*; it looks
like it's been wrapped from orinoco, but I'm not really sure
about the behaviour.. in any case I'm stuck to this driver and
must use it...

Hm, looking at the wireless_tools site gives the impression that
2.4.19 needs the WE-14 + WE-13 bug fix patch (see section kernel
2.4.x patches), so basically you should need wirless_tools v24. I
remember that wireless_tools and 2.4 kernels were a PITA. You
could try wireless_tools >= 27, since it supports multiple
versions of WE.

Joerg
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