-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Roberts wrote: > Okay, so I have an older Cisco 350 wireless PCMCIA card that used to > work fine under FC4. I upgraded to FC5 and of course it broke. The > driver still seems to be there and partially functional, but it doesn't > want to associate with an access point. > > I can run iwconfig and see the interface there as both eth0 with a wifi0 > alias. The ESSID is correct and the encryption key is correct (can't see > that under iwconfig, but it's set correctly in network config applet and > I have forced it again and again using iwconfig). > > The strange thing is that iwconfig reports "Access Point: Invalid". Mode > is "Managed". Interesting stats are: > Rx invalid nwid is > 0 > Invalid misc > 0 > > I can scan for APs using "iwlist eth0 scan" and it finds my access > point. > >>From this, I can only surmise: > 1. The driver is loading and it's finding the card OK. > 2. The utils are talking to the card OK and it's xmit/rcv OK. > 3. Something is wrong with AP association. > > I have tried forcing association with "iwconfig eth0 ap any" and even > the MAC address of the AP reported with "iwlist eth0 scan". Nothing > seems to work. > > Doing an /sbin/ifup hangs when DHCP goes looking for an address. Using > iwevent, I can see the wireless driver setting the mode to managed, the > encryption key, the correct ESSID, and then dropping broadcast TX > packets, presumably the DHCP requests. > > Help... Hi, I'm using a Cisco 350 PCMCIA card and it work fine in FC5. My setup is as follows: Mode=Auto, SSID=Specified, channel="the one i'm using, Transmit rate= Auto However, I do have to open Network and first Deactivate the device and then Activate it after boot. My wireless is eth1. Regards, Truls -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEiwgrickK29LSyG8RAhfBAJ9TbGuigEOwzxmFJCCAxyVscWRpkwCfZhxY wx9YS09TiU8VQ+hjorWHGso= =wNs5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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