From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: I have a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card. With RHL 7.2 everything worked great with configuring WEP keys and the like. With RHL 7.3 I get error messages and it doesn't configure WEP. The iwconfig program also complains about mismatched Wireless Extension versions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run 'iwconfig ethX" notice the complaint 2.Run 'iwconfig ethX key s:testing restricted' notice the nasty error 3.Try with Red Hat Linux 7.2 and notice that it works Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a Additional info: I tried with the stock 7.3 kernel, and the 2.4.18-4 errata kernel with the same results. This worked fine with RHL 7.2 # iwconfig eth1 Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 1 of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12. Some things may be broken... eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"TESTING" Nickname:"mentor" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/-1056964560 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:176 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:4304 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:46862 Missed beacon:0 Try setting a key: # iwconfig eth1 key s:testing restricted Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. I also tried compiling the "24" wireless tools and got the same error when setting the key. Info about the card: airo: Probing for PCI adapters airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters airo: Doing fast bap_reads airo: MAC enabled eth1 0:40:96:41:b2:ef eth1: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f Again, this worked fine with RHL 7.2. This is my interface config file that USED to work with RHL 7.2. # cat ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=no USERCTL=yes ESSID=TESTING KEY="4b0fa2e76cfba2ad1fe6528383 restricted" # No, this is not my real key or ESSID
i'm seeing the same thing and I can narrow down the parameters significantly. 7.2 machine, all errata applied, wireless-tools-21-3 setting WEP keys attempted with: iwconfig eth0 key 1234-5678-90 [1] key 1234-5678-90 [2] key 1234-5678-90 [3] key 1234-5678-90 [4] (the actual hex values are different, but the above is the used form) If booted to 2.4.7-10 (7.2 default kernel), the above iwconfig form works fine, the connection works like a charm. Same machine, just rebooted over to 2.4.9-31 errata kernel gives: SIOCSIWENCODE(95): Operation not supported all other forms of key-setting attempts seem to result in the same, including "iwconfig eth0 key s:foo". iwconfig eth0 spits the usual warning about compiled with 64, using version 11 since wireless-tools is the same in both cases, changing bug to kernel and version back to 7.2 in the hopes it'll help track down the offender
might as well reassign to arjan, too
sorry for the mass-changes, but upon realization that anything tagged against RHL 7.2 might get ignored, i'll send this back to 7.3 since it's indeed still broken there - i'm installing the 2.4.9-{7,13,21} kernels now to narrow down the scope
already broke with 2.4.9-7 - arjan, can you recommend and point to any intermediary kernels between that and 2.4.7-10 that i could try to narrow it down? I may only have this test laptop another day, but I'd like to nail this soon.
One of the things to try would be to move away one of the 2 (!!) airo.o/airo_cs.o module pairs that got included accidentally. One of them is old and should be removed; but was shipped by accident.
Now WEP and everything works after doing: # cd /lib/modules/VER/ # rm ./kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/airo* ./pcmcia/airo* # depmod -a That leaves only the correct drivers in the directory: ./kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ Now everything is working normally again.
confirmed, works like a champ here any chance for an upcoming round of kernel errata to include this fix? hey, I can dream :)
2.4.18-5 has this fixed
I am having similar problems with the RedHat 8 distr. Everything is working ok, except for my wireless aironet 350. When attempting to activate through the >redhat-config-network. I get an error after attempting to activate the cisco aironet wireless pcmcia card. The error message that I am getting Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 13 of wireless extension while we are using version 12 The odd thing is that I am able to ping the router once the card has been activated for the first time, then upon reboot, I am unable to activate card again. As the card shows as inactive. Before rebooting, I do get a response from the router, however, I am unable to browse the web or ping anything outside of my network. I am able to arp and see other nodes on my LAN. I am also able to use a regular pcmcia wired card for browsing. Another thing to mention, the ACU reports that the card is associated with ip address: 00.00.00.00. The strength signal is excellent, full bar. Sorry to bore you fellows, but ive spent all weekend trying to fix this. Im about to give up, please forgive my naivety when it comes to linux. Spyro