Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

[Saphirus Sage]

On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Robin Atwood  
<robin.atwood@×××××××××.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.
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> 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$
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> 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.