still no happiness getting wireless to work with F7

[Robert P. J. Day]

  as a followup to my previous posts, i'm still fighting with F7 to
get simple wireless up and running.  at this point, i'm using the same
layout as i was with FC6:

  * dell inspiron 9200
  * linksys PCMCIA net card
  * linksys WRT54GL router, now running openwrt

i've tested various combinations and, under F7, i've never got
wireless up and running, and the only difference at this point is the
OS -- the hardware and router config is the same as before.

  in a nutshell, here's what might be relevant content from
/var/log/messages:
...
Jun 23 12:48:33 localhost kernel: wifi0: NIC: id=0x801b v1.0.0
Jun 23 12:48:33 localhost kernel: wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
Jun 23 12:48:33 localhost kernel: wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.2
Jun 23 12:48:33 localhost kernel: wifi0: Warning: secondary station firmware version 1.4.2 does not seem to work in Host AP mode
...
Jun 23 12:49:04 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Jun 23 12:49:04 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Jun 23 12:49:04 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Jun 23 12:49:05 localhost avahi-daemon[2420]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv6 with address fe80::206:25ff:fe0b:8425.
Jun 23 12:49:05 localhost avahi-daemon[2420]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Jun 23 12:49:05 localhost avahi-daemon[2420]: Registering new address record for fe80::206:25ff:fe0b:8425 on wlan0.*.
Jun 23 12:49:11 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Jun 23 12:49:23 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
Jun 23 12:49:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Jun 23 12:49:59 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Jun 23 12:50:05 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
...

  and the output from "iwconfig":

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"openwrt"
Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"openwrt"
Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry limit:8   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:190  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:1246   Missed beacon:0


  at this point, i'm open to suggestions.  i don't know what to make
of that "unknown hardware address type 801", as i've never seen that
before in earlier versions of FC.  is that something i might need to
fix with mii-tool?

  thoughts?

rday