Cisco 350 wireless config problems

[Truls Gulbrandsen]

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Dave Roberts wrote:
> Okay, so I have an older Cisco 350 wireless PCMCIA card that used to
> work fine under FC4. I upgraded to FC5 and of course it broke. The
> driver still seems to be there and partially functional, but it doesn't
> want to associate with an access point.
> 
> I can run iwconfig and see the interface there as both eth0 with a wifi0
> alias. The ESSID is correct and the encryption key is correct (can't see
> that under iwconfig, but it's set correctly in network config applet and
> I have forced it again and again using iwconfig).
> 
> The strange thing is that iwconfig reports "Access Point: Invalid". Mode
> is "Managed". Interesting stats are:
> Rx invalid nwid is > 0
> Invalid misc > 0
> 
> I can scan for APs using "iwlist eth0 scan" and it finds my access
> point.
> 
>>From this, I can only surmise:
> 1. The driver is loading and it's finding the card OK.
> 2. The utils are talking to the card OK and it's xmit/rcv OK.
> 3. Something is wrong with AP association.
> 
> I have tried forcing association with "iwconfig eth0 ap any" and even
> the MAC address of the AP reported with "iwlist eth0 scan". Nothing
> seems to work.
> 
> Doing an /sbin/ifup hangs when DHCP goes looking for an address. Using
> iwevent, I can see the wireless driver setting the mode to managed, the
> encryption key, the correct ESSID, and then dropping broadcast TX
> packets, presumably the DHCP requests.
> 
> Help...
Hi,
I'm using a Cisco 350 PCMCIA card and it work fine in FC5.  My setup is
as follows: Mode=Auto, SSID=Specified, channel="the one i'm using,
Transmit rate= Auto

However, I do have to open Network and first Deactivate the device and
then Activate it after boot.  My wireless is eth1.

Regards,
Truls
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