Re: [Madwifi-users] madwifi causes internal 802.11 radio to turn off?

[Michael R. <ma...@no...>]

Hi.

John Pedersen wrote:
> The issue is that if I use iwconfig to set a restricted mode key (i.e.
> iwconfig ath0 key restricted xxxxx), the radio on my interal wireless
> card is turned off.  All other aspects of the driver works very well for
> me.

How did you come to this finding? Are you aware of the fact that you
need to set "iwpriv ath0 authmode 2" in order to be able to connect to
an AP running in restricted mode? See also:
http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=troubleshooting#my_wireless_nic_won_t_properly_associate_when_i_use_wep_restricted_mode_on_the_ap

> This is only an issue because I haven't been able to convince the folks
> at work to set things up using open mode.

The folks at work should be convinced to get rid of WEP at all (no
matter if it's used in open or in restricted mode) and start to make use
of WPA. But that's just my 2 cents :)

Bye, Mike