From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Linksys WPC11 ver. 3 (Prism 2) is recognized. orinoco driver loads, but card doesn't connect to any of the 3 WAPs here local. Card was used on a daily basis with multiple WAPs with no problem until FC3 upgrade. Other PCMCIA/CardBus cards work fine (firewire and wired ethernet) iwconfig shows wireless extensions for the card, but doesn't connect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert WPC11 2. Wait a few seconds for module loading 3. lsmod and iwconfig Actual Results: orinoco_cs 9545 1 orinoco 47053 1 orinoco_cs hermes 7617 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco ds 16965 5 orinoco_cs yenta_socket 18753 1 pcmcia_core 59913 3 orinoco_cs,ds,yenta_socket eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I" Mode:Managed Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=-68 dBm Noise level=-122 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Expected Results: an access point MAC showing that we're connected. There are three WAPs here... Additional info: Thinkpad 600X
I've had a similar problem. During the installation of FC3, the line alias orinoco_cs eth1 was put in /etc/modprobe.conf Removing this line solved the problem.
I reloaded from scratch, and upgraded to the recently available -678 kernel. Problem gone. Don't know whether it was the kernel or the fresh install.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
Sorry, new notebook with built in wireless. Don't have the WPC-11 any longer. I can't test it. When I went to FC4t2 on that notebook the problem did Not reoccur.