Re: Help with wireless on Fedora 8

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:39:56PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> I need some Fedora help. This new b43 user is having problems making a connection. He has a b-only
> AP of unspecified make with no encryption. He is using F8 with the default kernel (I think). He has
> done the following:
> 
> Ruggiero wrote:
> > i used "system->adminstration>Network" and i configurated everything from 
> > there...and the clicking on "activate wlan0" for a while my access point 
> > communicate and in the log i see that it's connected... here are outputs:
> > if i use NetworkManager i see it's connecting...but after a while i get the 
> > message "disconnected"
> 
> Tail of dmesg:
> 
> > wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:19:2d:c1
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:19:2d:c1
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:19:2d:c1
> > wlan0: authentication with AP 00:0c:41:19:2d:c1 timed out
> > wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:0c:41:19:2d:c1, but not in
> > authenticate state - ignored
> > wlan0: RX disassociation from 00:0c:41:19:2d:c1 (reason=4)
> 
> All the b43 messages are normal. He sees the AP with a scan, but never authenticates. Any suggestions?

FWIW, the F8 install kernel has wireless bits that are a month or
so old.  You may want to have him try these kernels:

	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23734

Those at least have wireless bits that are up-to-date w/ wireless-2.6.

John
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John W. Linville
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