[Madwifi-users] Bit Rate: 0kb/sec and some other questions.

[Tom L. <tom...@po...>]

Hey all.

I got my atheros card (level one pci model) running as an access point 
with WEP on Debian (planning to write the 92874624th mini howto on it 
and putting it on my site ;). (with HEAD branch I guess, since I didn't 
specify anything special)

I have a few questions however...

This is what iwconfig looks like:

sunrise:~/madwifi/tools# iwconfig ath0
ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"POWERLESS"
           Mode:Master  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point: 00:03:2F:22:87:B1
           Bit Rate=0kb/s   Tx-Power=12 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:****SNIP****   Security mode:open
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:23/94  Signal level:-72 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

* Is it normal it says 0kb/sec there?
* Do retry, rts threshold and fragment threshold mean anything? Should 
they be enabled, if so how?
* Is there a way to increase sensitivity or so? (0/3 seems low?)
* Is it normal I can put Tx-Power to anything and it's reflected in 
iwconfig? (iwconfig ath0 txpower 200 puts it at 200 dBm, but I don't 
think the card is actually using that ;)

Thanks from a wireless newbie who is happy his girlfriend can surf 
without silly cables ;)

Tom