On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Chatre, Reinette <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:49 AM, John Goulah wrote: > > > > > $ iwconfig > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > > > wmaster0 no wireless extensions. > > > > Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 22 > > of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20. > > Some things may be broken... > > > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"goulahnet" > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: > > Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm > > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B > > 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 > > > > > > > > Is this warning a problem? Does this mean I need to get a newer > > iwconfig (I'm on debian etch, Wireless-Tools version 28) > > I don't know if it is necessary. In the above iwconfig output it does > not look as though you are associated though. > > For some reason this helped with the association problem: sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap any > > > > > > Also, is this driver known to work with wpa_supplicant? > > yes > > great, wpa_supplicant is also working fine now, I did get a few warnings and I wasn't sure if this was ok to ignore, fixable, or would need to go to their list with it: sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - Trying to associate with 00:15:e9:fa:e2:db (SSID='goulahnet' freq=2462 MHz) Associated with 00:15:e9:fa:e2:db WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:15:e9:fa:e2:db [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:15:e9:fa:e2:db completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=] In any case, my wirless card is now working! Thanks so much, John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
