Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote:
> > >>I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco
> > >>Silver working again for
> > >>secured networks with a newer kernel.  It works fine using
> > >>dhclient now on unsecured
> > >                                         ^^^^^^^^
> > >                                        using what, wicd or ??
> > 
> > With dhclient or /etc/network/interfaces.  wicd doesn't see it
> > either probably because of the firmware problem.
> 
> I doubt that, a firmware problem will affect all frontends equally. You 
> might want to check that wicd is trying to access the correct device.

Could there be something else I have not installed?  I have not had this
problem with other installations.

wicd.log says:

2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Autoconnecting...
2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network
2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect

Thanks,

Paul