On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: > > I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the > > ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to > > activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface > > correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly > > fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are > > there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? > > > > TIA > > -Robin > > I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it seems to > come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem. Check > what dmesg has to say.
Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled$ Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticated Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: associate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disab$ Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled$ You get quite a few hits on this but no explanations. It's not the WEP password, that is correct. HTH -Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ----------------------------------------------------------------------