I have got my wireless card (acx111 chipset based) working on FC5 however it runs at a frustratingly slow rate (gets about 500kbpsish) and gets a pretty lousy signal strengh, having used the card on Windows with an offical driver I got a lot better signal strength, I cannot afford another card, but there are a lot of commands and such mentioned in the documentation (iwconfig manpage for example) about this stuff, however I am rather unsure about it all, dont want to blow up the wireless radio or anything.
I will post the details that (I know how to obtain) are available...
iwconfig...
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:"Kintaro Labs" Nickname:"jane.klabs"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:BB:D7:30
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=48/100 Signal level=27/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:43 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0
iwpriv...
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wlan0 Available private ioctls :
SetDebug (8BE0) : set 1 int & get 0
SetLEDPower (8BE2) : set 2 byte & get 0
GetLEDPower (8BE3) : set 0 & get 2 byte
SetRates (8BE4) : set 256 char & get 0
ListRegDomain (8BE5) : set 0 & get 0
SetRegDomain (8BE6) : set 1 byte & get 0
GetRegDomain (8BE7) : set 0 & get 1 byte
SetScanParams (8BE8) : set 4 int & get 0
GetScanParams (8BE9) : set 0 & get 4 int
SetSPreamble (8BEA) : set 1 byte & get 0
GetSPreamble (8BEB) : set 0 & get 1 byte
SetAntenna (8BEC) : set 1 byte & get 0
GetAntenna (8BED) : set 0 & get 0
SetRxAnt (8BEE) : set 1 byte & get 0
SetTxAnt (8BEF) : set 1 byte & get 0
SetPhyAmpBias (8BF0) : set 1 byte & get 0
GetPhyChanBusy (8BF1) : set 0 & get 0
SetED (8BF2) : set 1 int & get 0
SetCCA (8BF4) : set 1 byte & get 0
monitor (8BF6) : set 2 int & get 0
Test (8BF7) : set 0 & get 0
DbgSetMasks (8BF8) : set 2 int & get 0
GetAcx111Info (8BF9) : set 0 & get 0
DbgSetIO (8BFA) : set 4 int & get 0
DbgGetIO (8BFB) : set 3 int & get 0
some stuff from iwlist...
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[root@jane ~]# iwlist wlan0 bitrate
wlan0 13 available bit-rates :
1 Mb/s
2 Mb/s
5.5 Mb/s
6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s
12 Mb/s
18 Mb/s
22 Mb/s
24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s
54 Mb/s
Current Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
[root@jane ~]# iwlist wlan0 txpower
wlan0 2 available transmit-powers :
15 dBm (30 mW)
10 dBm (10 mW)
Current Tx-Power=15 dBm (31 mW)
[root@jane ~]# iwlist wlan0 power
wlan0 Supported modes :
o Receive all packets (unicast & multicast)
o Receive Unicast only (discard multicast)
o Receive Multicast only (discard unicast)
Fixed period ; min period:0us
max period:5s
Fixed timeout ; min timeout:0us
max timeout:65.535s
Current mode:off
