[Wylug-help] rtl8185 wireless card

[Don Magee]

I'm using WEP but it still fails with no security. It does 4 attempts at 
authentication and then fails.

This is the output from dmesg with security turned off at the AP.

wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:12:13:2d
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:12:13:2d
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:12:13:2d
wlan0: authentication with AP 00:0c:41:12:13:2d timed out

/var/log/messages just moans about dhcp failure but we didn't associate 
so it couldn't work.


Don Magee




Craig Hopkins wrote:
> 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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