On Monday 04 February 2002 13:02, you wrote: > Nate Carlson wrote: > > This is true. I tried to setup a linux wireless gateway with Orinoco > cards at work about 6 months ago and read somewhere (wireless howto?) > there is a special code passed to the Orinoco card's when plugged into a > base-station that tells them to allow 11Mbps. > > Under linux all you'll get out of the Orinoco cards is the ad-hoc > 3?Mbps. > > Christopher Gahlon Not true. I have two Orinoco cards installed in PCMCIA-to-ISA bridges. One is in a PII-233MHz and the other in a 486-100MHz. These machines provide a wireless link between my "main floor" and "basement" subnets, and they both run at 11Mb/s (as long as I keep the 486 next to the basement window; if I move it behind the wall, the S/N ratio drops so low that the speed drops down to 5.5Mb/s or even 2Mb/s). These cards are configured to use the IBSS mode (not the Orinoco "Ad-Hoc" mode). It was a bear to get the kernel and drivers set up and working correctly, but once I did (and stopped using a flaky Compaq as one end of the connection), it works just fine. Jeff Clark mailto:jclark at citilink.com "Too soon old, too late smart." http://www.citilink.com/~jclark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft's success proves "You can fool some of the people, all of the time."