FC5 PRISM Wireless won't connect
Abraham Kline
abrahamkline at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 23 05:16:41 UTC 2006
Just found a solution to my problem, so I'm following
up on my own message. I added hostap and hostap_cs to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to prevent them from being
loaded. Now orinoco_cs handles the card again and it
works fine.
Now why the hostap driver doesn't work... I have no
idea.
--- Abraham Kline <abrahamkline at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded a Fedora Core 4 machine to Fedora
> Core
> 5. Previously, the wireless card (PRISM 2 based)
> worked great in Core 4 using the orinoco_cs driver.
>
> Now, when booting Core 5, the card will not connect.
>
> It's detected and available in the network config
> GUI
> (now as wifi0 instead of eth1 as in Core 4).
> However,
> it just sits there with lights flashing and won't
> associate with anything.
>
> Looking at dmesg, I see this repeated a whole slew
> of
> times:
>
> wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
> wifi0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
>
> It seems that the card is now using a different
> driver
> than before (HostAP?) which seems to be causing me
> problems. Any ideas how to fix these problems? If
> not, how can I just go back to the orinoco_cs
> driver?
>
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