On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 13:48:28 +0100, Richard Mittendorfer wrote: > Also sprach Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 29 Dec 2005 > 10:59:24 +0000): [...] > > > > To my innocent eye, this suggests that there are two problems: > > - /e/n/i not sourced at bootup > > Do you have any other configuration tools installed that might interact > through hotplug/pcmcia? Is it a cardbus/pcmcia card at all? If, what > does "lspci" and the logs tell when it's plugged in?
No other tools that I can think of. lspci is silent on the pcmcia card. Here is a log entry: dmesg:eth0: Hardware identity 0001:0004:0005:0000 dmesg:eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048 dmesg:eth0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.72 dmesg:eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported dmesg:eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported dmesg:eth0: WEP supported 104-bit key dmesg:eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:A6:07:BB dmesg:eth0: Station name "Hermes I" dmesg:eth0: ready dmesg:eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f > > > - kernel/modules problem with encryption. > > There should be a description about what to choose when compiling the > kernel. AFAICR The config you posted didn't look bad. check this. Mine is a standard kernel, so I am glad it doesn't look bad. [...] > > Have you tried manually without DHCP? The wireless connection works with DHCP, it is only the encryption key that causes it to fail. WHen I turn off security at the router/access point, I have no difficulty in getting a connection. > > > 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 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. Thanks for your help thus far. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
