On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:56 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > >> >> My classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card has not been working > >> >> under Fedora/KDE (with WEP) for some time. > >> >> Does anyone have this card working under Fedora? > >> >> It works perfectly under Windows XP. > >> > >> I was looking at this again today. > >> My laptop with a classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card, > >> running Fedora-11, > >> with NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.i586, > >> connects with WiFi under Windows XP, > >> and also under Fedora with the network service. > >> But it fails with the NetworkManager service. > > > > When it's not connecting to anything, can you open a terminal and do the > > following? > > > > sudo iwlist eth1 scan > > If running under the network service I get > ------------------------------------ > eth1 Scan completed : > Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:B6:DA:56:B4 > ESSID:"dd-wrt" > Mode:Master > Channel:6 > Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) > Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm > Encryption key:on > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s > 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=0000009cf450bf08 > Extra:bcn_int=100 > Extra:capab=0x0011 > Extra: Last beacon: 109ms ago > ------------------------------------ > > Running under the NetworkManager service I get > ------------------------------------- > [...@mary ~]$ sudo iwlist eth1 scan > eth1 Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
NM uses wpa_supplicant to control all wifi connections; it's possible the supplicant and/or the kernel drivers don't like each other as much these days. We'd need to figure out what's going on there. You should be able to create a minimal wpa_supplicant config file like so (assuming you are using WEP, which it seems you are): ap_scan=1 eapol_version=1 network={ ssid="dd-wrt" key_mgmt=NONE scan_ssid=1 wep_tx_keyidx=0 wep_key0=<your hex wep key here> } and then run the supplicant like: wpa_supplicant -dddt -i eth1 -D wext -c /path/to/above/config/file and let me know the result. Thanks! Dan > ----------------------------------- > > > and paste what it returns? orinoco has always been somewhat iffy about > > scan results, and it looks like your card simply isn't finding your AP. > > Thus NM can't connect to the AP automatically. > > IIRC, NM worked fine with this card under Fedora-10. > > Also, the card seems to get into a strange state after NM. > I have to re-boot twice before the network service starts working. > > Nb I always change the line > NM_CONTROLLED=yes > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 > to "no" with the network service, and "yes" with NM. > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list