Grr...
I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work.
I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is,
I'm no longer able to sort it out myself.
>From the syslog, it appears that the encryption is no longer valid. This
is confusing because I haven't changed anything (that I know of) for
well over a year. I've checked the access point and it's working and
such...
help?
Between
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
/etc/network/ifconfig
I'm not getting anything to work. the card doesn't appear to load at
all or only partially.
ifconfig shows
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-02-2D-61-9C-4E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:652 (652.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:61:9C:4E
inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe61:9c4e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:652 (652.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
iwconfig shows
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"SECRET" Nickname:"notebook"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: None
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"SECRET" Nickname:"notebook"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: None
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
######################################
At some point I had this working nicely under eth1 in the
/etc/network/interfaces file with a configuration in that file of:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless_essid SECRET
wireless_mode managed
wireless_key1 s:ANOTHER_SECRET
wireless_defaultkey 1
and syslog statements of:
Jan 15 10:08:02 localhost kernel: prism2_config() failed
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: executing: './network start
wlan0 2>&1'
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + Wavelan IEEE Orinoco
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3
-> 2
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + iwconfig wlan0 key
s:ANOTHER_SECRET
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: Could not read current WEP flags.
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: encryption setup failed
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: wlan0: set_encryption failed
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + Error for wireless request
"Set Encode" (8B2A) :
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + SET failed on device wlan0
; Invalid argument.
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + iwconfig wlan0 essid "SECRET"
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + Allison network
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost cardmgr[3905]: + /sbin/dhclient wlan0
>/dev/null 2>&1
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: TXEXC - status=0x0004 ([Discon])
tx_control=000c
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: retry_count=0 tx_rate=0 fc=0x4108
(Data::0 ToDS)
Jan 15 10:08:03 localhost kernel: A1=00:00:00:00:00:00
A2=00:02:2d:61:9c:4e A3=33:33:00:00:00:16
A4=00:00:00:00:00:00
