Re: Debugging ral
A few lines above I wrote supported channel: i meant supported by your clients. Yes, this should be corrected, thank you. I don't know if some device supports those "high" channels: another ral adapter I tested does, my laptop doesn't. For example my iBook supports channels from 1 to 11 (don't know if it is an hardware limitation or it's just Apple) while another Toshiba laptop equipped with XP associates on chan 13 without any problem, not channel 112 however. After some playing with my clients I found the most powerful supported channel for me is chan 6. f. Non sono pigro...ma non ne ho voglia :D :D Il giorno 25/set/07, alle 16:15, Matthew Szudzik ha scritto: Why did you choose channel 6 instead of channel 112 (or channels 161 or 165, which have "power=16")? Channels 1 through 6 all have "power=14".
Re: Debugging ral
> I wrote a small doc reporting this experience and Damien's tips: I hope it
> could be useful.
> http://sekureshell.altervista.org/docs/trouble_ral.html
I have a question. You list channel 112 as having the greatest power
("power=57"), and claim that you chose the channel with the greatest
power. But later, when clients associate with your network they connect
with channel 6
ral0: sending auth to 00:19:5b:xx:xx:xx on channel 6 mode 11b
Why did you choose channel 6 instead of channel 112 (or channels 161 or
165, which have "power=16")? Channels 1 through 6 all have "power=14".
Debugging ral
I'd like to thank in public Damien Bergamini, he helped me a lot in debugging my ral setup: it was very very slow and unreliable. With Damien's tips now I have a better understanding of my ral device and, above all, it works flawlessy. I wrote a small doc reporting this experience and Damien's tips: I hope it could be useful. http://sekureshell.altervista.org/docs/trouble_ral.html f. Soekris docs & resources - http://sekureshell.altervista.org
