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On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: |
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> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Robin Atwood |
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> |
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> <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: |
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> >> Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> >>> I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have |
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> >>> enabled the |
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> >>> ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts |
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> >>> to |
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> >>> activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the |
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> >>> interface |
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> >>> correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly |
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> >>> fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. |
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> >>> Are |
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> >>> there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? |
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> >> |
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> >> I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it |
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> >> seems to |
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> >> come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem. |
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> >> Check |
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> >> what dmesg has to say. |
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> > |
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> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and |
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> > mixed-cell |
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> > disabled$ |
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> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticated |
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> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: associate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and |
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> > mixed-cell |
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> > disab$ |
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> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and |
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> > mixed-cell |
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> > disabled$ |
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> > |
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> > You get quite a few hits on this but no explanations. It's not the WEP |
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> > password, that is correct. |
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> |
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> WEP password or WEP key? I seem to recall wicd being kinda weird about |
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> ascii. |
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It's a hex key. This all worked fine with the madwifi-ng drivers but I thought |
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I would try and use the drivers available in the stock kernel. Not such a |
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good idea, maybe? |
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-Robin |
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Robin Atwood. |
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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