This sounds very similar to the Red Hat bug 65264 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65264):
>------- Additional Comment #5 From Arjan van de Ven on 2002-05-28 07:36 > > One of the things to try would be to move away one of the 2 (!!) > airo.o/airo_cs.o module pairs that got included accidentally. One of > them is old and should be removed; but was shipped by accident. > >------- Additional Comment #6 From Dax Kelson on 2002-05-28 15:03 > >Now WEP and everything works after doing: > ># cd /lib/modules/VER/ ># rm ./kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/airo* ./pcmcia/airo* (I would suggest moving the files into a temporary directory somewhere outside of /lib/modules, but to each their own) ># depmod -a > >That leaves only the correct drivers in the directory: > >./kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ > >Now everything is working normally again. I ran into a similar problem on my laptop with a Cisco 350 card, but I went and upgraded the firmware and now it sits and complains about being unable to set the MAC :( Still, this fix might help you out. Dan On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:27, Jeremy wrote: > the Aironet wireless card drivers for the 4800/340/350 2.4Ghz wireless cards > does'nt work properly in the mandrake kernel. > > when I run iwconfig i get the following > > Device eth1 has been compiled with version 0 > of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 13. > Some things may be broken... > > but it appears to run and it will let me configure certain things. > > Also when i do a ifup eth1 i get the following error message: > > ifup eth1 > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : > SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. > Determining IP information for eth1... > > With the driver in the mandrake kernel HW address assigning doesn't appear to > work properly. I assign the address with the line > > ifconfig eth1 hw ether 11:11:11:11:11 (example address) > > and it says it is assigned but the card doesn't actually use that address > > > Lastly Kismet doesn't function with the drivers because it says they are > reporting a invalid value: > > First i run kismet_monitor (which puts it into promiscuious mode) then i run > kismet and it shows the following > > FATAL: pcap reported netlink type 1 (EN10MB) for eth1. This probably means > you're not in RFMON mode or your drivers are reporting a bad value. Make > sure you have run kismet_monitor. > > THis makes it look like there are 3 problems: > > > 1. THe drivers are compiled with the wrong version of the wireless extensions > 2. Setting the HW address of the wireless card doesn't work > 3. Putting the card into promiscuious mode doesn't work > > > But all of these work with the driver included in the linus kernel. > > Would it be possible to switch the driver in the mandrake kernel to the one in > the linus kernel ? >
