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[Johnny Stork]

I recently blew away RH 7.3 on my laptop (which was working fine...silly guy), and installed Mandrake 9. I recall it took only around an hour to get my Linksys WPC11 working with my WAP11 following the linux-wlan-ng installation. But I neglected to make copies of my various wireless.opts, wlan-ng.cong ect files before installing Mandrake. So guess what? I cant get my WPC11 to work now and after 3-4 hours I give up and must ask for help. Here is some output from /var/log/messages when restarting pcmcia services: Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop cardmgr[6799]: executing: './wlan-ng check wlan0' Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop cardmgr[6799]: executing: './wlan-ng stop wlan0' Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop cardmgr[6799]: stop cmd exited with status 1 Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop cardmgr[6799]: executing: 'modprobe -r prism2_cs' Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Unknown mgmt request message 0x00000143<5>prism2_cs.o: 0.1.14 Unloaded Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop kernel: p80211.o: 0.1.14 Unloaded Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported Nov 11 01:09:00 Laptop cardmgr[6799]: exiting Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop cardmgr[7043]: watching 1 sockets Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop cardmgr[7044]: starting, version is 3.2.0 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop cardmgr[7044]: socket 0: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card (Prism 3) Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop cardmgr[7044]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs' Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.14 Loaded Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop cardmgr[7044]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0' Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: ident: nic h/w: id=0x801b 1.0.0 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.0.5 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.3.4 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=1/3 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/9 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop kernel: Prism2 card SN: 99SA01000000 Nov 11 01:09:02 Laptop /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup wlan0 Nov 11 01:09:03 Laptop cardmgr[7044]: + grep: /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev: No such file or directory Nov 11 01:09:03 Laptop cardmgr[7044]: + error: Autojoin indicated failure! And from iwconfig..... wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"non-spec" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 Link Quality:0/100 Signal level:81/100 Noise level:27/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 So it looks like the card and driver are installed fine, but I cant seem to set the ESSID anywhere in spite of setting it in every config file I think is involved? wlan.conf: SSID_wlan0="Penguin" ENABLE_wlan0=y #SSID_wlan1="" #ENABLE_wlan1=n #SSID_wlan2="" #ENABLE_wlan2=n wireless.opts contents....... # Pick up any Access Point, should work on most 802.11 cards essidany,*,*,00:06:25:AB:40:AD) INFO="WPC11" ESSID="Penguin" MODE="Managed" ;; # Generic example (decribe all possible settings) *,*,*,00:06:25:AB:40:AD) INFO="WPC11" ESSID="Penguin" # NWID/Domain (cell identifier) : 89AB, 100, off NWID="" # Operation mode : Ad-Hoc, Managed, Master, Repeater, Secondary, auto MODE="Managed" # Frequency or channel : 1, 2, 3 (channel) ; 2.422G, 2.46G (frequency) FREQ="" CHANNEL="6" # Sensitivity (cell size + roaming speed) : 1, 2, 3 ; -70 (dBm) SENS="" # Bit rate : auto, 1M, 11M RATE="auto" # Encryption key : 4567-89AB-CD, s:password KEY="" # RTS threshold : off, 500 RTS="" # Fragmentation threshold : off, 1000 FRAG="" # Other iwconfig parameters : power off, ap 01:23:45:67:89:AB IWCONFIG="" # iwspy parameters : + 01:23:45:67:89:AB IWSPY="" # iwpriv parameters : set_port 2, set_histo 50 60 IWPRIV="" ;; esac wlancfg-Penguin contents: #=======WEP=========================================== # [Dis/En]able WEP. Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=false # true|false lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=false # true|false dot11PrivacyInvoked=false # true|false dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 # 0|1|2|3 dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true # true|false, in AP this means WEP is required. # If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate # keys (just a convenience) PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen # nwepgen, Neesus compatible PRIV_KEY128=false # keylength to generate PRIV_GENSTR="" # or set them explicitly. Set genstr or keys, not both. dot11WEPDefaultKey0= # format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or dot11WEPDefaultKey1= # xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx dot11WEPDefaultKey2= # e.g. 01:20:03:40:05 or dot11WEPDefaultKey3= # 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c:0d #=======SELECT STATION MODE=================== IS_ADHOC=n # y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure #======= INFRASTRUCTURE STATION =================== # What kind of authentication? AuthType="opensystem" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP) #======= ADHOC STATION ============================ BCNINT=100 # Beacon interval (in Kus) CHANNEL=6 # DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends # on regulatory domain) BASICRATES="2 4" # Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s) OPRATES="2 4 11 22" # Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s) ________________________________________ Johnny Stork Calgary, AB Canada Open Solutions Open Source & Linux Solutions for Business http://www.open-solutions.ca Academic Computers http://www.academic-computers.com