I installed a Netgear WG511 (v1) pcia wlan card in a Thinkpad 570E running Fedora 9. After adding firmware file to /lib/firmware directory, card comes up, connects to access point, lights blink and iwconfig looks right. But ifconfig shows no ip address. dmesg shows this line: wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3) Here's my workaround: Added these lines to startup script /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -Dprism54 -iwlan0 \ -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf /sbin/dhclient wlan0 Then it works... Version is: NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-3.fc9.i386
forgot to say : kernel is 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686
Does the problem still happen if you use the 'wext' driver for wpa_supplicant instead of the prism54 driver?
If you mean replacing -Dprism54 with -Dwext in the script above, I tried that and it was a disaster. wpa_supplicant first reported it was associated, then it reported that network was down. Furthermore, dhclient hangs. This happened two times in two tries. When I put -Dprism54 back in, it worked again. Thanks.
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Are you using the 'p54' driver for your card, or the prism54 driver? If you blacklist 'prism54' in /etc/modprobe.conf, and find the right firmware here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#firmware (put the files in /lib/firmware) then restart, and use the -Dwext wpa_supplicant driver, does that help things? The problem is that the 'prism54' wpa_supplicant driver is deprecated because it doesn't use the standard interfaces. It is not enabled for F-10 and above. If there are bugs with the 'wext' driver, we need to fix those instead so that you can use it.
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