[lwlan-user] linux-wlan-ng 0.2.2 released

[Holger Wansing]

Hello,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:32:35 -0400, solomon at linux-wlan.com wrote:
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.2.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.2.tar.bz2
> 

I experienced lower speed/link quality using 0.2.2 or 0.2.1final
compared with 0.2.1-pre25 (saw it in a wlan plugin of my xfce panel
displaying the link quality):


----------With 0.2.2------snip

ed at laptop:$ sudo iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

irlan0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:"home"  Nickname:"home"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  
          Access Point: 00:12:17:CC:F2:70     Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   Security mode:open
          Link Quality=40/92  Signal level=-52 dBm  Noise level=-93 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

-----------snap


----------------With 0.2.1-pre25---------snip

ed at laptop:$ sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

irlan0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"home"  Nickname:"home"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  
          Access Point: 00:12:17:CC:F2:70     Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Tx-Power:2346 dBm   
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   Security mode:open
          Link Quality=80/92  Signal level=-44 dBm  Noise level=-98 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

---------snap



Or maybe that a problem with displaying the values in iwconfig?


Greetings
Holger

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