Airport Card Problems

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:33 -0800, Ron wrote:
> 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. 

Have you updated to the latest kernel in FC4? 

uname -a

yum update

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

Are you using NetworkManager?

> 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.

Yes I have had this working on an iBook and a iMac (though no longer on
FC4), are you using WEP at all?

Paul