epretorious Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted October 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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