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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 enabled the |
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> > ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to |
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> > activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the 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. 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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> > TIA |
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> > -Robin |
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> |
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> I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it seems to |
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> come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem. Check |
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> what dmesg has to say. |
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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 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 mixed-cell |
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disab$ |
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Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell |
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disabled$ |
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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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HTH |
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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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