Re: Edimax PCMCIA Card - rt61 Driver

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 14:01 -0400, Tom Mort wrote:
> I have been using Network Manager successfully for some time now with an
> IPW2200 card.  The computer I was using died and I am now using a laptop
> without a built in antenna so I am trying to use an Edimax EW-7108PCg
> PCMCIA card.  It uses the serialmonkey rt61 driver.

Hmm; can you try the upstream kernel's rt61 driver, or is rt61 not
upstream yet?  Is the serialmonkey driver based on mac80211 or not?

> I have put the old hard drive in the new laptop all settings are the
> same with the exeption I have compiled and installed the rt61 driver and
> the Edimax card.
> 
> Now when I boot up with my home network I am prompted for my keyring
> password which I enter.  It tries to connect and I am prompted for my
> passphrase or 128 bit key.  I enter it (it is already in keyring) but it
> cannot connect.  I have the same problem with a public wifi hotspot that
> has a passphrase.  Also,  at a public hotspot with no password it tries
> to connect (one green dot) but cannot.

Do the system logs (wherever your distro puts NM syslog output) say
something like "association timed out"?

Dan

> I can connect to my home network using the RutilT utility, however, the
> send/receive email option is greyed out.  I have also connected to a
> non-password public wifi spot using the command line, but , again I
> can't send or receive email.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what's up with this?  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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