[driverloader] Essid Cannot be set in Centrino

[Weehawk]

Hi Alvin,

at least I can confirm this problem from my side. I tried 2.4.22-ac4 
with apm and acpi, and 2.6.0-test9 with apm and acpi kernels on a Gentoo 
system.

The System is a Dell D500 Latitude Laptop with the nifty Truemobile 1300 
wireless card.

I have the problem of not being able to set the essid since Driverloader 
1.05. At the early version I was at least able to set the essid, but as 
soon as anything accessed the device, the essid simply vanished from the 
iwconfig, and returned after I stoped any access to it.
Since after 1.05 I can set basically every little setting BUT the essid, 
which makes the wireless pretty much useless =P

I use the most recent windows .inf and .sys as linked to the 
driverloader-page. I can't find anything in the faq nor any solution 
here on the list, though I remember it being mentioned already, but 
somehow not resolved.

I hope someone can help us. I'll be happy to send a -dump to the 
driverloader folks if they want to. And yes, I stripped down the kernel 
enough that driverloader uses IRQ 11 exclusively. Still no go.

Regards,

Christian

PS:
I experience since the last 3-4 driverloader version, that I get a cgi 
error after trying to upload the .sys file on the config webpage. I then 
manually copy the .sys file into the /var/lib/driverloader directory. 
Any idea where this comes from?

Alvin Loh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using Slackware 9.1 on an IBM t40 .. and its running kernel 2.4.22 
> .. I have downloaded Linuxant driverloader software and it installed 
> fine ..
> 
> However, I am unable to set the ESSID for the interface .. the rest of 
> the options (nickname , keys etc.) are ok ..
> 
> 
> I found this line when kernel is booting up :-
> driverloader: nsdisSetInformation: 802_11_AUTHENTICATION_MODE 
> st=INVALID_DATA W=0 N=0...
> 
> The Access point has a WEP key ..
> 
> I have tried setting the key using iwconfig . .then setting the ESSID .. 
> but it still doesn't work
> 
> iwlist scan shows the access point properties ..
> 
> 
> Anyone have the same problem ?
> 
> Alvin
> 
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