On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 20:29 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: > While I am not an expert I do see a lot of strange messages and it > doesn't look like the card is even able to associate: > Dec 4 19:04:20 xerces NetworkManager: > <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(2730): wpa_driver_wext_associate > Dec 4 19:04:20 xerces NetworkManager: > <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(2730): Association request to the driver > failed > > Two questions: > 1) Can you associate by stopping NetworkManager and bringing up > WPA_Supplicant manually? Yes. I therefore assume that the rt2x00 driver has some idiosyncrasies that prevent the commands that are issued by NM from working. > If you need instructions on doing this I can provide them > > 2) The older rt2x00 drivers support WEP and unencrypted networks and > since you are only using WEP wouldn't it be better to step back and > use those drivers since they seem to work? Indeed, I currently use them. I only wanted to try out rt2x00 so that I would be able to use NM. :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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