On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:15 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > G'day again, > I've been working at getting wireless going on an Acer Extensa 5220 > with a Broadcom 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card. The error that appears isn't > covered in the threads and howto's on the Broadcom cards so perhaps it > is a simple networking mistake on my part. > > Both the commands #ifup wlan0 or #iwconfig wlan0 mode Auto give the > error: > > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. > > I have tried Auto and AdHoc modes in both system-config-network and > iwconfig with the same error. The network service is off, Network > Manager & NM Dispatcher are on. The NM applet shows up to 3 wireless > networks but I cannot connect. ifconfig shows wlan0 is UP. > > What have I missed, skipped or forgotten? > > -- > Regards > Simon > I had the same error when trying to configure my bcm4318 card after installing Fedora 8. iwconfig could not change essid. After trying everything I could think of, and posting to this list (no one had any ideas that helped) I uninstalled ndiswrapper and re-installed and then I was able to connect. Rick B.
