iwl3945 status in fedora7
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Thu May 24 17:34:17 UTC 2007
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:10:53PM +0530, Deependra Shekhawat wrote:
> Step 4) iwconfig wlan0 essid "BSNL" channel "8" freq "2.447G" enc
"<key>"
(FWIW, the channel and freq parts really should not be necessary.)
OK, voodoo time...
I suspect that "iwconfig wlan0" at this point will show a "0/100"
link quality and may show "Not associated" for Access Point. True?
If so, please try these two steps:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "BSNL"
iwconfig wlan0
If link quality still shows 0/100, repeat a time or two (or three).
I find that I usually get an association on the second try, and a
non-zero signal level on the third. Does this happen for you?
I don't have a good fault theory here yet. I suspect it has something
to do with the MLME functionality in mac80211 (duh), and possibly the
interaction between that and the hardware-based scanning that the
iwl3945 uses.
Anyway, once you get a non-zero link quality then proceed to the
"dhclient wlan0" step.
Does that "work" now? (I know it isn't pretty...)
John
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