0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on) 1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off) 2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off) 3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off)
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:18:29 -0500, Jim lawrence.jim@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 14:01:05 -0500, Chris Ruprecht chrisr@ruprecht.org wrote:
Jim,
you can ignore that error.
if it can not determine the correct IP address (DHCP) then you could have one of these issues:
- The AP (Access Point) you are connecting to has MAC address filtering
switched on and your card's MAC address is not listed in the AP's table. 2. The Wireless Network is using encryption and your machine isn't set up with the same password. 3. The Wireless Network is not using encryption but you have it set up on your machine. 4. The Wireless Network is using another type of authentication method that you don't have. 5. There is no DHCP server defined to be used on your network. 6. If this is not your own Wireless Network, talk to the administrator of that network.
If this is your home network, please set up the AP properly and then set up the client machine (your laptop, I presume) accordingly. Also make sure that you are actually talking to the AP you want to talk to and not to some neighbor's AP - who has his own encryption and MAC filtering set up (hopefully).
And when you have everything working, set up the AP to be a closed network, so you don't broadcast "Hello, here I am, please come and try to hack into me" all over the place.
Best regards, Chris
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:47 -0500, Jim wrote:
when i try to activate my wireless card i get this Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Determining IP information for eth1...
Specs intel 2200bg wireless
-- James Lawrence Rochester NY
-- Don't ask me nothin' about nothin' - I might just tell you the truth ... Bob Dylan
chris, ok i have my home network set up to be closed, thought i had my cnfg file correct for my wirerless card maybe not here is another error Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable? <--weird
why is it looking for a cable?
-- James Lawrence Rochester NY
one more thing when i run THE CMD cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill it replies that the RF is ON which means the wireless won't work so what do i change it to the options 0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on) 1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off) 2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off) 3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off) SW --->software HW ---> Hardware also what are the efects of makeing such a change to the OS as well as How to make such changes. please Advise...