Bug 61779

Summary: Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Fortepianissimo <fortepianissimo>
Component: wireless-toolsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority: medium    
Version: skipjack-beta1CC: ivo, rvokal, teg
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2002-06-21 22:21:40 UTC Type: ---
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Description Fortepianissimo 2002-03-24 15:21:11 UTC
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Description of problem:
Inserting an ORiNOCO silver card generated the following error message and
failed to activate the wireless networking:

Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Determining IP information for eth1... failed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using redhat-config-network to configure the wireless interface at eth0
2. Inserting an ORiNOCO silver card
3. Bingo!
	

Actual Results:  The error message given in "Description".

Expected Results:  The network should be up and running.

Additional info:

The result was obtained on a Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop, with an internal NIC
configured as eth0. Following are the relevant configurations:

/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-Wireless:

USERCTL='yes'
DEVHOSTNAME=''
NETMASK=''
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
DOMAIN=''
NAME=''
HWADDR=''
DEVICE='eth1'
IPADDR=''
GATEWAY=''
TYPE='Wireless'
ONBOOT='no'
CHANNEL='6'
FREQ=''
KEY='off'
ESSID='XXX'  <-- set to the proper ID
MODE='Managed'
RATE='auto'
PEERDNS='yes'
NETWORK=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address
BROADCAST=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address


/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:

USERCTL='yes'
DEVHOSTNAME=''
NETMASK=''
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
DOMAIN=''
NAME=''
HWADDR=''
DEVICE='eth1'
IPADDR=''
GATEWAY=''
TYPE='Wireless'
ONBOOT='no'
CHANNEL='6'
FREQ=''
KEY='off'
ESSID='XXX'  <-- set to the proper ID
MODE='Managed'
RATE='auto'
PEERDNS='yes'
NETWORK=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address
BROADCAST=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address

Comment 1 Fortepianissimo 2002-03-24 15:23:17 UTC
I forgot to mention: the previous version worked fine without this problem,
using exactly the same configurations (wireless-tools-21-3.i386.rpm).

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-09 17:01:37 UTC
Is this fixed with 23-2?

Comment 3 Fortepianissimo 2002-04-10 20:53:33 UTC
Unfortunately no - the same problem persists.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-11 04:14:04 UTC
Can you attach the config file? It shouldn't even be trying to set the frequency
from what I see there.

Comment 5 Fortepianissimo 2002-04-11 04:48:25 UTC
The file /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-Wireless:
USERCTL='yes'
DEVHOSTNAME=''
NETMASK=''
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
DOMAIN=''
NAME=''
HWADDR=''
DEVICE='eth1'
IPADDR=''
GATEWAY=''
TYPE='Wireless'
ONBOOT='no'
CHANNEL='6'
FREQ=''
KEY='off'
ESSID='XXX'  <-- set to the proper ID
MODE='Managed'
RATE='auto'
PEERDNS='yes'
NETWORK=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address
BROADCAST=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address


And the file /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-Wireless

USERCTL='yes'
DEVHOSTNAME=''
NETMASK=''
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
DOMAIN=''
NAME=''
HWADDR=''
DEVICE='eth1'
IPADDR=''
GATEWAY=''
TYPE='Wireless'
ONBOOT='no'
CHANNEL='6'
FREQ=''
KEY='off'
ESSID='XXX'  <-- set to the proper ID
MODE='Managed'
RATE='auto'
PEERDNS='yes'
NETWORK=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address
BROADCAST=x.x.x.x  <-- set to the proper address


Note everything worked in 21-3. If you need any more info let me know.

Comment 6 Fortepianissimo 2002-04-11 04:50:05 UTC
Oh one thing probably needs to be mentioned: my kernel is 2.4.18-rc4, built
manually (not rpm).

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-11 15:01:59 UTC
Out of curiousity, does it work if you use the 2.4.18-0.x available in rawhide?

Comment 8 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-04-16 19:36:46 UTC
Seems to work for me, with a gold card.

Comment 9 Fortepianissimo 2002-06-21 22:21:36 UTC
Ok for wireless-tools-24-1 rpm everything works fine now. (same kernel - 2.4.18)