On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 23:13 -0600, Jim Haynes wrote: > I have a laptop with an ath5k PCMCIA card. I don't use it very often, > but it has worked in the past. When I use it I do everything by hand: > ifconfig UP, iwlist scan, iwconfig, and dhclient. > > Tonight I was trying to use it and iwlist scan would show an unencrypted > access point but when I would use iwconfig to associate with it I > could not get it to associate. Tried essid any essid "name of the > thing" and ap followed by the xx:xx:... string for the ap. It always > came back saying not associated.
In most cases, you only need to set the ESSID, but not the AP. In any case, ESSID should be set last as setting it will trigger the association. It would be useful if you quote the exact output instead of rephrasing the error messages. It's possible that NetworkManager is interfering with the connection. If you can use NetworkManager, then it's probably the best option instead of doing everything manually. If you definitely don't want to use NetworkManager, then I would uninstall it and reboot to be sure. I'm guess NetworkManager gurus could suggest something less radical, but that's the sure thing. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users
