[Wylug-help] rtl8185 wireless card

[Craig Hopkins]

Hi there,

Does tailing /var/log/messages reveal anything when it's trying to
connect? NetworkManager will spew out garbage to it, at the very
least.

Are the access points running a particular level of encryption?

Craig

2008/9/5 Don Magee <don at leedsweb.dyndns.org>:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the response. I used the network settings GUI that comes with
> fedora 9. Theres an Activate button that should do the association and
> the dhcp. But I've tried from the command line as well:
>
> ifup wlan0
>
> should do it.
>
> When I try to associate the card,  iwconfig tells me the AP mac address,
> ssid etc. So it seems to think that the association worked. But if you
> look at the access point it isn't associated.
>
> I also have a prism chipset card and that works fine.
>
>
> Don Magee
>
>
>
>
> Craig Hopkins wrote:
>> What are you using to associate? Command line, or NetworkManager?
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> 2008/9/3 Don Magee <don at leedsweb.dyndns.org>:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>Anyone had success with rtl8185 wireless networking. I'm using Fedora 9
>>>and the driver that comes in the package. The card gets the driver
>>>loaded ok and it detects access points ok.
>>>
>>>iwlist wlan0 scan
>>>
>>>finds access points in the vicinity. But I can't get it to associate
>>>with any of them.
>>>
>>>Googling doesn't seem to come up with anything useful. So I would
>>>appreciate any help getting it to work.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>Don Magee
>>>
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>>
>>
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