Troubles with wireless-tools

[epretorious]

Hello, All:

 

I'm attempting to configure my wireless interface using iwconfig (wireless-tools-26-3mdk) and am not able to modify any settings using any of my cards. (Orinoco Classic Gold, Netgear MA401, or D-Link DWL-650 verion 1.02 -The first is a Wavelan/IEEE card and the other two are Prism2 cards.)

 

pcmcia-cs/orinoco_cs (pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-3mdk) automatically connects to the strongest open AP and configures my wireless cards without flaw:

 

[eric@zippy eric]$ sudo /sbin/iwconfig eth0
eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"wireless"  Nickname:"zippy"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:06:F4:04:DB:91
         Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
         Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:28/92  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-98 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:6
         Tx excessive retries:22  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

However, when I attempt to manually associate with a different AP...

 

[eric@zippy eric]$ sudo /sbin/iwconfig eth0 essid 'linksys'
[eric@zippy eric]$ sudo /sbin/iwconfig eth0
eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"zippy"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:06:F4:04:DB:91
         Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
         Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:29/92  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-99 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:6
         Tx excessive retries:22  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

...the operation fails. (Notice that the AP's MAC address has NOT changed.)

 

Or if I try to change the channel...

 

[eric@zippy eric]$ sudo /sbin/iwconfig eth0 channel 10
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
   SET failed on device eth0; Operation not supported.
[eric@zippy eric]$ sudo /sbin/iwconfig eth0
eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"zippy"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:06:F4:04:DB:91
         Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
         Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:35/92  Signal level:-63 dBm  Noise level:-99 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:85
         Tx excessive retries:143  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

...the operation fails. (Notice that the frequency has NOT changed.)

 

Any ideas what's causing this? I believe that the orinoco_cs driver is supposed to provide complete supoprt for the Wavelan/IEEE chipset and nearly-complete support for the Prism2 chipset.

Edited September 30, 2004 by epretorious

[epretorious]

I haven't made any progress finding a solution to this but I have noticed that sometimes there's just a lag between issuing the command and the card associating with the AP. But then again, sometimes it just bombs.

 

Any ideas?

Edited October 4, 2004 by epretorious