Airport Card Problems

Ron rpatters at charter.net
Thu Feb 16 01:33:48 EST 2006


I can't get my airport card working on my bronze powerbook. I am running
a Netgear WGR-614 with open security. The airport card works fine under
Panther. 

The card is being detected and the drivers are installed. Here is the
output from dmesg.

orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel
Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
airport 0.15rc3 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>)
airport: Physical address 80030000
eth1: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0000
eth1: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:0046
eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:08:0C:EA
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
airport: Card registered for interface eth1

And the output from lsmod.

airport                 8096  0
orinoco                49108  1 airport
hermes                  8992  2 airport,orinoco

Here is the output from iwconfig. I have put the card in managed mode
and set the essid. I have even forced the router to use channel 3 2422
mhz with no results.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"TREES"  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point:
44:44:44:44:44:44
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/92  Signal level=134/153  Noise level=134/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Does anyone have an original airport card working under Fedora Core 4?
Any help would be appreciated.

Ron



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