Re: orinoco wireless with WEP under kernel 2.6.14-2-686
Also sprach Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> (Thu, 29 Dec 2005
16:30:33 +0000):
> On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 13:48:28 +0100, Richard Mittendorfer
> wrote:
> > Also sprach Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> (Thu, 29 Dec 2005
> > 10:59:24 +0000):
> [...]
> > > castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
> > > eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Coixxxxxxxxx" Nickname "HERMES I"
> > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point:
> > > 00:0F:B5:51:D7:FC Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
> > > Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > > Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
> > > Security mode:open Power Management:off
> > > Link Quality=10/92 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise
> > > level=-88 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:305
> > > Rx invalid [...]
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Never seen this before. There's the problem for sure.
> >
> > Does this card work with earlier kernels? Is udev in use?
>
> Yes, udev is in use. I am almost certain that I had the same
..and earlier kernels do?
> difficulty (or similar -- at that time I did not bother to investigate
> much) with a 2.6.12 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with the same card.
> That probably did not have udev running.
I've heard about various issues with newer (>12) kernels and udev that
was no recent enough. But I can't tell of any such probs I had my own. I
don't even use udev :)
I just recall, there have been some pcmcia changes[1] in newer kernels
(besides udev). HTH. Likely you'll have more success with an older kernel
release.
I luckely own a cardbus card and have not used the pcmcia ether card for
quite a while now.
[1] http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
> Thanks for your help thus far.
np, ritch
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