Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

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2011/1/30 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

What happend if you do:

ifconfig wlanx up
iwconfig wlanx essid "your_essid"
dhclient wlanx

As root and x= your wifi card?


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