How to configure wireless network card

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>>> In my experience, NM just adds another layer of obfuscation
>>> to an already confusing (and confused) setup.
>>> I found after a lot of experiment (and requests on the NM mailing list)
>>> that NM just did not work with my WiFi card,
>>> a standard (if old) Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card.
>>> Basically, it tried to turn the card to a mode it did not support.
>>
>> I sort-of recall that thread.  I have a relatively old Orinoco card in one
>> machine that works just fine with NM, except that there's no WPA support.
>> I did nothing special to configure it, just used the standard tools
>> (system-config-network and NM).
>
> Your posting led me to try NetworkManager again,
> but my experience was no better than before:
> starting NM has the immediate effect of stopping my WiFi connection,
> which until then was working perfectly ...
>
> I see in /var/log/messages:
> ======================================
> Dec  2 22:11:27 martha NetworkManager: <WARNING>
>  get_scan_results (): card took too much time scanning.  Get a better one.
> Dec  2 22:11:27 martha NetworkManager: <WARNING>
>  nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): device eth0 returned an error.
> ======================================
> Yes, well - either my card is not working properly,
> or NetworkManager has a long was to go ...
>
> Running "sudo service network restart" does not restore the link.
> I have to re-boot the machine.
>
> After that everything - except NM - is working again,
> and scanning seems to work without any problem:
> ======================================
> [tim at martha ~]$ sudo iwlist eth0 scan
> eth0      Scan completed :
>          Cell 01 - Address: 8A:13:22:EE:C9:17
>                    ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"
>                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
>                    Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
>                    Signal level:-57 dBm  Noise level:-97 dBm
>                    Encryption key:on
> ======================================
>
> The card is a Lucent Technologies Gold PCMCIA card (11b),
> with, according to /var/log/dmesg,
> "Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.04".

Mine's Lucent/Agere 8.10.  Other than that, don't know what to say. 
Sorry....

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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