Re: [Madwifi-users] WEP problem
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From: Jon S. <jsc...@po...> - 2005-12-16 22:37:24
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On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:29 -0800, Dimitris Kogias wrote: > >>- Which version of madwifi are you using? -old or -ng? > >>Release/snapshot number? > >> > > > > > > All I know is it's the BSD madwifi > > Is that the debian madwifi-source package? That seems to be a November > snapshot, probably of madwifi-old but I'm not sure. Anyway... > no it is probably an old madwifi, not sure I've tried the ng version but I'm not sure how it works, that's why I went back to what was already working. I don't have a problem with the driver itself I don't think, just can't get the WEP key enabled.. > >>- What does "iwconfig ath0" say? > >> > > > > > > iwconfig reports just fine without setting the key and the interface > > comes up. > > with the key line in there the interface fails to come up and I get this > > error: > > > > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : > > SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument. > > Failed to bring up ath0. > > Searching for 8B2A on the madwifi.org site pointed me to this: > > http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Troubleshooting#WhentryingtoconfigureWEPencryptioniwconfigcomplainsaboutinvalidargument.Whatswrong > > Is wlan_wep loaded? > No, here is a printout of lsmod Module Size Used by scx200_wdt 1916 1 yenta_socket 14540 0 rsrc_nonstatic 6848 1 yenta_socket hostap 93704 0 bridge 32760 0 ath_pci 67552 0 ath_rate_sample 7424 1 ath_pci wlan 135036 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample ath_hal 181936 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample > D. Jon Scottorn Systems Administrator The Possibility Forge, Inc. http://www.possibilityforge.com 435.635.0591 x.1004 |