Re: Trouble with Cisco Airo MPI350 and kernel-2.6.1+

[Lai Zit Seng]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Warren Togami wrote:

> Are these many errors normal?
> 
> [root@ibmlaptop etc]# iwconfig eth1
> Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
> of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> Some things may be broken...
> 
> eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"apophis"  Nickname:"ibmlaptop"
>            Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point: 00:0C:41:75:D4:02
>            Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/0
>            Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>            Encryption key:****-****-**   Security mode:open
>            Power Management:off
>            Link Quality:30/0  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-98 dBm
>            Rx invalid nwid:59  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>            Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:4900   Missed beacon:3

It seems like if you have bunch of rx invalid nwids... it could be due to 
interference from another wireless network in the area?

Regards,

.lzs

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