Hi I have a relatively old (P3) Compaq Evo N600C laptop which I picked up from somewhere, in which I have installed a circa-2002 PCMCIA Buffalo 802.11a/b wireless LAN card which uses the orinoco driver in the kernel. I know that this combination of kernel, machine and laptop work since it's been working since I first started using the laptop several months ago, while my wireless LAN was configured to use WEP.
However, I recently replaced my wireless router with a newer one which does 802.11g as well as a/b and supports WPA as well as WEP. I made the necessary additions to my /etc/network/interfaces file on both my laptops. My Toshiba laptop made the switch from WEP to WPA with the absolute minimum of fuss. My Compaq did not. Thinking that maybe I'd screwed up the setup somehow (I previously upgraded the Compaq to testing, then changed my mind and went back to etch -- result: a mess) I have just COMPLETELY WIPED AND RE-INSTALLED ETCH from the current dvd .iso images on debian.org. I have, as a result, a completely clean, unsullied installation. I chose to leave the network unconfigured at install time after discovering that the installation process doesn't support WPA, and instead configured it manually after install. I have wpasupplicant installed. But when I try to bring up the wireless network interface, I get this: <START OF GENERATED OUTPUT> kayo:~# ifup eth1 ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth1/00:02:2d:4f:8a:1e Sending on LPF/eth1/00:02:2d:4f:8a:1e Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. kayo:~# <END OF GENERATED OUTPUT> Now my interfaces file looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth1 inet dhcp wpa-ssid <My SSID> wpa-psk <My PSK, a 13-character alphanumeric code> wpa-group CCMP,AES wpa-pairwise CCMP,AES auto eth1 This is the same on both laptops (except on the Toshiba, it's eth2 as eth0 is a wired Ethernet on both machines and on the Toshiba eth1 is a ethernet over IEEE1394 which I don't use). I've checked that the SSID and the PSK are correct. I don't get any of those "Operation Not Supported" or "Invalid Argument" messages on my Toshiba, which is also running etch and is running the same kernel (stock debian 2.6.18-5 i386 kernel) as the Compaq laptop. Clearly, however, something is different -- anyone able to help me figure out what? Thanks Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
