Hi all, Having recently expiremented with Debian vs SuSE, I was really impresed by the perfomance of the former so (after a horde of troubles I eventually traced back to a dodgy IDE cable) I put Debian on my main home machine. (Started with a knoppix install then upgraded online).
Everything is now working well except for my WiFi card; a Linksys WMP-11 (the early one that worked with Linux) which SuSE installed a prism2 driver for. The new install uses the Orinoco driver by default while SuSE used the Prism2. With the Orinoco driver installed, it always starts up in 'Managed' mode, regardless of the config. when I set the mode to Ad-Hoc, I loose any signal: eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"linux-wlan" Nickname:"kermit" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 Bit Rate=2Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=-68 dBm Noise level=-122 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 iwconfig eth0 mode Ad-Hoc iwconfig eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"linux-wlan" Nickname:"kermit" Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437GHz Cell: 02:06:D5:72:AE:1C Bit Rate=2Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off 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 If I `rmmod orinoco_pci`, I can then load up the prism2_pci driver (but only as wlan0 - not eth0), and it too seems to decide it's own settings: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linux-wlan" Nickname:"linux-wlan" Mode:Auto Frequency:2.432GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power:-971784352 dBm Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-90 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 If I then try to change these settings via iwconfig I get an error: iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. Help! TIA, Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish