Another NetworkManager question

Charles R. Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Nov 9 02:39:42 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:29:33PM -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:02 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> > > How is it possible that iwconfig and NM applet show conflicting information ?
> > > In this case at least a 30% signal strength means that NM applet information
> > > is actually incorrect.  
> > 
> > Orinoco cards have problems.  My orinoco card (and I've had the same 
> > report from 2 other people) will refuse to associate with an AP when its 
> > strength is low.  However, it will report being connected to an AP when it 
> > clearly cannot be.  For example:
> > 
> 
> hmmmm.  I have a Symbol wireless card which uses orinoco_cs.  At this
> point (after having several problems with said driver/card and
> NetworkManager, and reading comments like Dan's...), I'm thinking I need
> to use a better driver.  Are there better alternatives to orinoco_cs?
> Would NdisWrapper be a better choice?

My Symbol LA4111 card was working fine with orinoco_cs back in FC2 or
early FC3test I believe.  Something changed, and I couldn't get it to 
work with test3 and later IIRC.




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