Re: Problems with Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA 1799:701f while trying WPA connection

[Robert Goldner <robert@au-79.de>]

Larry Finger schrieb:
> Robert Goldner wrote:
>>
>> The ifconfig output seems good (like other working wlan cards), and 
>> the interface is up. But iwlist wlan0 scan does not find any 
>> wlan-network. Very strange, because I made this test very close to the 
>> access-point (about 30 cm distance). With other wlan-cards I get 
>> signal levels of ~80% of maximum. So maybe the receiving part is 
>> broken. I can not test the hardware with the windows-driver, because I 
>> don't have a windows-installation.
> 
> Just for the record, you should run iwlist as root. That is the only
> way you will get an active scan. In addition, it may take several
> tries; however, wpa_supplicant did all that before without finding any
> results. A broken card is a strong possibility. Do any of your
> colleagues have Windows?
> 
> Larry
> 
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My fried has an old laptop with windowsXP, and at his laptop the card 
detects my network (after installation of the driver). So the card 
itself seems to be ok. A WPA connection is not possible, because the 
windows-installation is very old (before SP1), so there is no 
WPA-support, but a WEP-connection was possible.

iwlist was run as root. I made an other try, boot with acpi=off, but the 
same result.

A try with ndiswrapper is not so easy, because my actual kernel uses 4k 
stacks, and this is not really compatible with ndiswrapper.

When I searched for the windows-driver, I got the information from 
belkin, that there are 7 different versions of the card possible. My 
card has a version 7000de, which means version 7. See
http://www.belkin.com/de/support/article/?lid=en&pid=F5D7010de&aid=7422&scid=342
(only in german, but saying that the first number of the version string 
means the needed software version).

Any ideas?

Robert