On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Robin Atwood
<robin.atw...@attglobal.net> wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
Robin Atwood wrote:
I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have
enabled the
ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts
to
activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the
interface
correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly
fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver.
Are
there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching?
TIA
-Robin
I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it
seems to
come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem.
Check
what dmesg has to say.
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and
mixed-cell
disabled$
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticated
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: associate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and
mixed-cell
disab$
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and
mixed-cell
disabled$
You get quite a few hits on this but no explanations. It's not the WEP
password, that is correct.
HTH
-Robin
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WEP password or WEP key? I seem to recall wicd being kinda weird about
ascii.
