Virtual WiFi on Linux?

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:33:03AM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
> 
> This is why, sans co-ordination (or a lot of filtering), two radios  
> (even on ch1 and ch11) in the same box don't work.

	That's why I said from the beggining it depend on the
definition of 'work'. For various reasons, I tend to have multiple
802.11 cards in my boxes, in different Pcmcia slots, and it work.
	This is the iwconfig output from one of my box :

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth4      no wireless extensions.

eth2      no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"MY_NETWORK"  Nickname:"lagaffe"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 6A:03:88:00:59:01   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535  
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=99/100  Signal level=-46 dBm  Noise level=-81 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:34182423  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:144724  Invalid misc:91104224   Missed beacon:0

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"guest"  Nickname:"lagaffe"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:12:79:E1:CE:CB   
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=37/70  Signal level=-63 dBm  Noise level=-100 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1147481  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:106631  Invalid misc:18588641   Missed beacon:0

	As you can see, I get lot's of retries, but it work ;-)

	Jean