[Wylug-help] rtl8185 wireless card

[Don Magee]

Yes the mac address is the AP that it's trying to connect to. There is 
no mac restriction on the AP. And I get the same result with different APs.

Don Magee


Roger Beaumont wrote:
> Don Magee wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>  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
> 
> 
> 
> Am I right that 00:0c:... is coming from the AP?  If so, there seems to 
> be an successful dialogue happening, with an unsuccessful outcome - and 
> thus some glitch with the specific authentication, not the process.  
> Ignoring key issues, does the AP have a list of acceptable MAC addresses 
> to which this card needs adding?
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
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