Package: wireless-tools
Version: 29-2
Severity: important
I'm setting up a new install on a Medion Akoya P6611. It uses Intel 5100 AGN
for the wireless networking. When trying to get the wireless network
configured, I have found that iwconfig is unable to set the encryption key and
thus fails to associate with the router. I issue the command:
iwconfig wlan0 key myhexkey
and the error message is:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
Set failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
I get the same error if I use iwconfig wlan0 key s:mypassphrase. I can set
essid and mode without errors.
But, wpa_supplicant (with an appropriate configuration file that contains the
passphrase) can succesfully set the key and associate with the router. If I
then type iwconfig wlan0, it reports that the encryption key has been set. I
can then successfully ifup wlan0 (though it still complains about setting the
key).
I'm using the iwlagn module with the firmware downloaded by firmware-iwlwifi
(which the kernel complains is out of date - see bug 532207). I also tried the
newest firmware downloaded from the link provided in that bug report. This did
not help.
Perhaps this is a driver problem, and not specifically something with iwconfig,
but I don't know how to tell beyond what I've already tried.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libiw29 29-2 Wireless tools - library
wireless-tools recommends no packages.
wireless-tools suggests no packages.
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