ipw2200 on FC4 problems

[Christian Kalkhoff]

Hi,

i had the same problem yesterday with prism 54 card and FC3. After that 
error message the card activates properly and works. So i just have to 
ignore the message. :) What about yours?

Christian

Cyberz z wrote:

> hi,
> i have placed the proper firmware files in the proper folder.
> now i'm able to configure a wireless device with the ipw2200.
> but when i try to activate it i get this error:
>
> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
> Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.  Check 
> cable?
>
> i do not have any kind of encryption system on my router.
>
> this is my ifcfg-eth1:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> IPV6INIT=no
> ONBOOT=yes
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> GATEWAY=
> TYPE=Wireless
> DEVICE=eth1
> HWADDR=00:12:f0:42:e4:79
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> NETMASK=
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=Morpheus
> IPADDR=
> DOMAIN=
> ESSID=
> CHANNEL=1
> MODE=Managed
> RATE='0 kb/s'
>
> and this is my iwconfig summary:
> [root at Morpheus ~]# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Morpheus"
>          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>          Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
>          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
>
> any suggestion?
>
> thankyou again!!!
>
> ciao
> dario
>
>


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