IEEE 802.11-DS and IEEE 802.11b

[David Goodenough]

On Sunday 18 July 2004 16:14, Oscar Rodilla wrote:
> Hi to everybody.
>
> I'm programming a script (executed in the hostap) which obtains the
> channel whith less interferences from other AP's. After this scan, the
> HostAP changes to mode master and starts working in this channel.
>
> Everything works correctly when the output of a "iwconfig" command shows
> something like that:
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11b    mode:  ....
>
> But sometimes, this output changes to IEEE 802.11-DS and then nothing
> works correctly. When this occurs, the card doesn't accept "iwpriv" or
> most "iwconfig" commands. A solution is restart the card (another time I
> see IEEE 802.11b in the output) but obviously this is not the best way
> because clients connected to hostAP will loose their connection.
>
> Anybody can tell me why the card changes to IEEE 802.11-DS ?? What does
> it mean ??
>
> Thanks in advance and sorry if my English is quite poor :(
>
> Bye!
>

I got some odd behaviour (not this, but none the less odd) with older
firmware.  I am currently running 1.8.0 and they now behave as I 
would expect.

David