From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 Description of problem: The version of iwconfig .23 that is shipped with RedHat 7.3 has a bug that prevents it from turning off the encryption settings (possibly modifying them as well?). A fix is provided in version .24 of the wireless tools. I have upgraded the wireless-tools rpm in 7.3 to .24 - I only had to port the makefile patch. Let me know if you want it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Plug in card 2.type: /sbin/iwconfig eth0 enc off 3.View encryption settings Actual Results: Encryption was not turned off on the card Expected Results: Encryption should have been turned off Additional info:
It seem to fail tune to 11Mb data rate on Orinoco card
Confirmed that -23-2 fails to turn off encryption on my Dell Latitude C400 with wvlan_cs driver. The -24 package fixes this.
Possible workaround: in /etc/pcmcia/wireless, edit the relevant section for your card, and set ENC=none in that file. It appears that encryption cannot be turned off once turned on, but things work OK if it never gets turned on in the first place.
Fixed in Red Hat Linux 8.0 at least. Closing.