I've been using an Orinoco Silver card with RH 7.2/Intel without much
trouble, and have just upgraded to 8.0. The right drivers (orinoco_cs,
orinoco, hermes, etc.) are getting loaded at start up, and the card is
getting power. But WEP encryption is not getting correctly set up,
which causes the card to fail to connect with my AP.
I'm assuming that the "supported" RedHat technique for configuring the
card is to use "neat", which puts its settings into
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 for my card. Here's what's in it:
NETMASK=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
BROADCAST=""
IPADDR=
NETWORK=""
ONBOOT=no
DEVICE=eth1
NAME=
DOMAIN=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
HWADDR=
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
ESSID=MyEssID
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Ad-Hoc
KEY=s:MyKey
RATE=Auto
/etc/modules.conf contains the line:
alias eth1 orinoco_cs
You would think this should work, and it almost does; just not quite.
Here is what "iwconfig eth1" returns:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"MyEssID" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point:
02:05:90:21:E9:1D
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Note that it picked up just about everything, except the encryption info.
I've looked in the ifup-wireless script, and it looks like the script
*should* pick up the KEY parameter and enable WEP. But it doesn't, and
there are no errors in /var/log/messages to indicate why this might be so.
I could rip out the standard RedHat scripts and put in my own (since I
can get it working if I hit it with a 2x4 and keep wacking), but I'm
assuming that WEP encryption is supported in the standard scripts
without compiling a kernel or installing a locally built copy of pcmcia-cs.
Anyone have any ideas how the RedHat config UI wants to get its
parameters, and if this is documented anywhere at all?
Much thanks,
Rob
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