help for error after changing mode

[Timur Alperovich]

Yan,

I've had a similar issue and I had to reset the card to get it to work
properly. You can do that with "iwpriv wlan0 reset 1". Try that. I hope it
helps.

Timur

On 8/3/07, YAN HE <yanhe at louisiana.edu> wrote:
>
>  Hello, Everybody,
>
> I met a strange problem in using hostap driver 0.4.9 for Prism
> cards. After I inserted the card, the driver could recognize the card and
> showed the general information after I ran "iwconfig wlan0". However, after
> I ran "iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed", the essid became empty(""). After that,
> whatever essid I assigned by running "iwconfig wlan0 essid essidname", the
> essid was always empty. When I ran "iwlist wlan0 scan", I got the error
> message "wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down".
>
> The version of linux kernel is 2.6.11. I tried both Netgear MA401 16-bit
> card and D-Link DWL650 16-bit card, and got the same error. The detailed
> output is attached.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> YAN
>
>
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