[Prism54-users] setting my card in 802.11b only mode

[Jaap]

Feyd (feyd at seznam.cz) wrote:
  
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:32:52 +0100
> Jaap <jaap at squat.net> wrote:
> 
> > Feyd (feyd at seznam.cz) wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:58:36 +0100
> > > Jaap <jaap at squat.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > >
> > > > That's what i thought, but:
> > > > pebble:~# iwconfig eth2 rate 11M
> > > > Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
> > > > SET failed on device eth2 ; Input/output error.
> > > > pebble:~#
> > > 
> > > iwpriv <iface> s_profile 0
> > >
> > If the card is up, i can do that without error messages, but it does not
> > seem to change anything. iwconfig still says "IEEE 802.11b/g" and the
> > Bit Rate is still 54 Mb/s (according to iwconfig). 
> 
> May be it doesn't work in Ad-Hoc, or display correctly. If I change the
> profile in Master, it shows 54Mb/s too, but clients drop to 11Mb/s.
> 
> > Also 
> > 	iwpriv <iface>
> > show the same value for s_profile as before.
> 
> iwpriv <iface> shows arguments, not values, you need
> iwpriv <iface> g_profile to show the value.
>
ok, with g_profile i can see that the value has changed.
 
> What firmware do you use? 1.0.4.3 works for me.
that's what i'm using.
> What does lspci -vn say about the card?
> 
> Feyd
0000:01:00.0 0280: 1260:3890 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 1260:0000
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 11
        Memory at 10400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

i guess it should work then :-)

Thanks,

Jaap