Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Robin Atwood
>
> <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
> >> Robin Atwood wrote:
> >>> I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have
> >>> enabled the
> >>> ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts
> >>> to
> >>> activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the
> >>> interface
> >>> correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly
> >>> fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver.
> >>> Are
> >>> there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching?
> >>
> >> I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it
> >> seems to
> >> come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem.
> >> Check
> >> what dmesg has to say.
> >
> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and
> > mixed-cell
> > disabled$
> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticated
> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: associate with AP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and
> > mixed-cell
> > disab$
> > Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and
> > mixed-cell
> > disabled$
> >
> > You get quite a few hits on this but no explanations. It's not the WEP
> > password, that is correct.
>
> WEP password or WEP key? I seem to recall wicd being kinda weird about
> ascii.

It's a hex key. This all worked fine with the madwifi-ng drivers but I thought 
I would try and use the drivers available in the stock kernel. Not such a 
good idea, maybe?

-Robin
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