Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 442099
unable to connaect to access point with wireless rt61pci
Last modified: 2008-04-12 08:23:16 EDT
Description of problem: after update from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24.x i can not connect to my access point I have tried several 2.6.24 version and i have the latest .74 it discovers the AP but unable to connect to it. i have EW7128G Edimax (pci) and linksys AP Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.24-74 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: no wireless connection Expected results: connection Additional info:
after two days that i was not touching the computer i logged in and issued ifup wlan0... and now it works :-) initially wlan0 was down after the boot process was done. i changed nothing, so i am not sure what sould be the future of this bug. but fore now it's solved :-) see dmesg: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready then i issued "ifup wlan0" and... wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:18:39:bc:52:67 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:18:39:bc:52:67 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:18:39:bc:52:67 wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:39:bc:52:67 (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=2) wlan0: associated wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:18:39:bc:52:67) ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: no IPv6 routers present kernel(uname -a) = 2.6.24.4-74.fc8