From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 5 14:55:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE1137B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C06915E2DB; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:55:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:55:42 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting channels on wi0 Message-ID: <20011205175542.A22167@setzer.chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <15374.40842.443973.449316@trooper.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15374.40842.443973.449316@trooper.velocet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 up 59 days, 16:10 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On December 05, 2001, David Gilbert sent me the following: > Having just got new wireless network toys, of course I've been playing > with them. One thing I noticed almost immediately is that there are > several other companies on channel 6 --- which (contrary to the man > page) appears to be the default configuration of the cards. I can tell > this because "tcpdump" spits out lots of traffic that's not mine. > > Since I'd rather have my 11Mb to myself, I set about changing the > channel of the cards. No go. Here's my terminal capture: Perhaps your card does not support that frequency? Have you tried others? -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+@ 5 X R@ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h->++ r++ y- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message