From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: My wireless NIC (linksys wpc11 v.3) will only work with wep disabled on the WAP. The card worked fine with WEP enabled in both FC2 & FC3 T1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3.20-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attempt to configure wireless NIC using system-config-network 2.add WEP key in hex e.g. 0x123456789 3.Save config & attempt to activate the connection Actual Results: Attempted to activate the connection with WEP enabled, the application was unresponsive and had to be killed after several minutes. Expected Results: The connection should have become active witin a few seconds, gotten IP from DHCP etc Additional info: Fresh install of FC3 T2 on a compaq armada M700, selinix is turned on in default (targeted?) mode.
applied all applicable updates as of 20:30 09/21/04 but the problem persists
which module is the wireless driver? can you try to configure it by hand? First start it without a WEP key, then set the WEP key manually by: # iwconfig <interface> key 0x123456789 # iwconfig <interface> key restricted
The module is likely orinco_cs (I don't know the correct cmd to see which one applies, OK I'm dumb). Output of iw config w/ WEP off & link working returns: [jsavage@sw-lt01 ~]$ /sbin/iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"foo_ws" Nickname:"sw-lt01" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=26/92 Signal level=-83 dBm Noise level=-140 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:203 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 running 'iw config eth1 key 0x123456' as root gives me: [root@sw-lt01 ~]# iwconfig eth1 key 0x123456 Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "0x123456". So either I'm messing up <or> something else is... JS
Ok... sorry! # man iwconfig .... To set the current encryption key, just enter the key in hex digits as XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX or XXXXXXXX. ... # iwconfig <interface> key 123456789
Thanks but I'd already tried that with the same result, Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
this is definetly a kernel driver bug/missing feature. One last thing: does the interface have an IP address? # ifconfig eth1
Yep: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:0D:28:FC inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:66ff:fe0d:28fc/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1215 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:863797 (843.5 KiB) TX bytes:288826 (282.0 KiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x180
Oh- In case I was unclear the card *does* function properly as long as WEP is not enabled.
yes, but this is a kernel driver issue: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
It is working with all available updates applied so marking closed.