Failure to SET Mode of wlan0 in F7
Rick Bilonick
rab at nauticom.net
Tue Jan 15 19:00:18 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:15 +1100, Simon Slater wrote:
> G'day again,
> I've been working at getting wireless going on an Acer Extensa 5220
> with a Broadcom 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card. The error that appears isn't
> covered in the threads and howto's on the Broadcom cards so perhaps it
> is a simple networking mistake on my part.
>
> Both the commands #ifup wlan0 or #iwconfig wlan0 mode Auto give the
> error:
>
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>
> I have tried Auto and AdHoc modes in both system-config-network and
> iwconfig with the same error. The network service is off, Network
> Manager & NM Dispatcher are on. The NM applet shows up to 3 wireless
> networks but I cannot connect. ifconfig shows wlan0 is UP.
>
> What have I missed, skipped or forgotten?
>
> --
> Regards
> Simon
>
I had the same error when trying to configure my bcm4318 card after
installing Fedora 8. iwconfig could not change essid. After trying
everything I could think of, and posting to this list (no one had any
ideas that helped) I uninstalled ndiswrapper and re-installed and then I
was able to connect.
Rick B.
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