Re: Failure to SET Mode of wlan0 in F7

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 14:00 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:15 +1100, Simon Slater wrote:
G'day again,
I've been working at getting wireless going on an Acer Extensa 5220
with a Broadcom 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card. The error that appears isn't
covered in the threads and howto's on the Broadcom cards so perhaps it
is a simple networking mistake on my part.

Both the commands #ifup wlan0 or #iwconfig wlan0 mode Auto give the
error:

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

I have tried Auto and AdHoc modes in both system-config-network and
iwconfig with the same error. The network service is off, Network
Manager & NM Dispatcher are on. The NM applet shows up to 3 wireless
networks but I cannot connect. ifconfig shows wlan0 is UP.

What have I missed, skipped or forgotten?

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Regards
Simon

I had the same error when trying to configure my bcm4318 card after
installing Fedora 8. iwconfig could not change essid. After trying
everything I could think of, and posting to this list (no one had any
ideas that helped) I uninstalled ndiswrapper and re-installed and then I
was able to connect.

Rick B.

I'm not running ndiswrapper, some said it is not needed with b43 so I
haven't installed that to keep it a bit simpler - one less thing to work
out.

Now you mention it, after starting the lappy just now, the ESSID has
reset to null. So that change didn't stick either. I'll find that
thread and have another read.

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Regards
Simon

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