[driverloader] Problem getting the WLAN working on an ACER 661LCi, WLAN deteced but kant set key.

Marc Boucher marc at linuxant.com
Fri Nov 14 07:43:09 EST 2003


Hi,

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:27:54AM +0100, Birger Kollstrand wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Driverloader is installed and the modules looks good on my SuSE 9.0 Centrino 
> laptop. (ACER 661Lci)
> iwlist scan shows:
> 
> linux:~ # iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0     Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:75:63:C5:C3
>                     ESSID:"TWSAP"
>                     Mode:Managed
>                     Frequency:2.412GHz
>                     Quality:1/1  Signal level:-35 dBm  Noise level:-200 dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
> 
> But when I try to do :
> linux:~ # iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Key substitued)
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.

Unfortunately we haven't been able to reproduce this problem here,
even with the same windows driver version. Please send
dldrconfig --dumpdiag output to support at linuxant.com

Is anybody else experiencing this with 1.41 (or newer)?

Marc



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