[ale] atheros 802.11g/b/a

[Jerry Yu]

if nothing u can do to the driver or card, at least you can always wrap a
script to try $mode till success.

On 10/10/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have a problem with the atheros card in my laptop.  First, I must say
> that atheros is a pain in the ass card to work with.  It requires
> madwifi which eventually gives you two stupid interfaces wifi0 and ath0.
> Why it does this is unknown to me.... but anyone who has ever dealt with
> networking typically thinks of one interface per connection (i.e. eth0,
> tap0, vlan0, etc.)  Frustration makes me think that the designers were
> drunk or high when they designed this (feel free to clue me in on what I
> am missing wrt this).
>
> Anyway, here's my problem:  I'd like to use my wifi card at home with
> 54mbps ap (linksys wrt54g), but I also need to use this card at work,
> hotspots, etc., places that are likely to be running 802.11b networks
> (11mbps).  The problem is that the atheros piece of crap needs me to
> specify the mode in order to connect to an ap.  So at home I have to do
> this:
>     "iwpriv ath0 mode 3"  <-- 802.11g
> or at work:
>     "iwpriv ath0 mode 2"  <-- 802.11b
>
> iwpriv docs say that mode 0 should be for a/b/g, but 0 doesn't work and
> the atheros card fails to connect to the ap.  Using mode 2 or 3 does
> work, but then it's a pain to manually mess with /etc/network/interface
> settings everytime I change to a different ap.
>
> Any ideas on what to do other than buying a better wifi card?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jim P.
>
>
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