Wireless - Was [Re: DSL]

[John Dangler]

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).

> 
> Matthew Flaschen
>