[Sussex] Wireless woes

[Rupert Swarbrick]

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> 
> Make sure the card is in "Infrastructure" or "Ad-Hoc" mode.  I got
> caught out by this many, many times before I realised what was
> wrong... :)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Matt

Thank you very much. iwconfig now actually shows a mac address:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"swarbrickwireless"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: 00:12:CF:02:B3:4C
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
          Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality:96/100 Signal level:-39 dBm  Noise level:-252 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Unfortunately, when I try ifup (or through the network-admin gui), it
pauses for ages and then comes out with:

...
Apr 16 21:53:11 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Bringing up iface
Apr 16 21:53:11 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Card successfully reset
Apr 16 21:53:11 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Not associated
Apr 16 21:53:12 localhost kernel: rtl8180: IBSS on ch 11
Apr 16 21:53:12 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Enabling beacon TX
Apr 16 21:53:41 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Bringing up iface
Apr 16 21:53:41 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Card successfully reset
Apr 16 21:53:41 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Not associated
Apr 16 21:53:42 localhost kernel: rtl8180: IBSS on ch 11
Apr 16 21:53:42 localhost kernel: rtl8180: Enabling beacon TX

in /var/log/messages. And fails.

I'm not trying to use WEP. And have done a:
$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 key open

so I don't think that should be a problem.

/etc/network/interfaces looks like:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
name Wireless LAN card
wireless_essid swarbrickwireless

auto wlan0

Any help or ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

Rupert
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