[driverloader] Problem with US Robotics USR805416 PCI Card and WEP Encryption

[Marc Dätwyler]

Hi everybody
Updating both the firmware of the acces point and the windows driver
(6.0b14) solved the problem.

Thanks a lot
Marc

Am Mit, den 18.08.2004 schrieb Linuxant support (Jonathan) um 17:29:
> Hi,
> 
> as Cristiano suggested, you could try with different versions of the 
> Windows XP driver. You should also make sure that the firmware of you 
> access point is up to date. Are you able to connect to your access point 
> while WEP is activated with another computer?
> 
> We can also see that your kernel is compiled with the CONFIG_PREEMPT 
> option. You could try to compile a kernel without this option and use 
> DriverLoader with this new kernel to see if there is a difference.
> 
> Please send at support at linuxant.com an example command you use to set up 
> WEP on your wireless interface and the output of that command. You 
> should also send us the output of the following commands after you have 
> configured your WEP key :
> 
> ---
> iwconfig
> iwlist scanning
> ---
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
> www.linuxant.com
> support at linuxant.com
> 
> 
> Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:51, Marc Dätwyler wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi 
> >>I am not able to properly acitvate the WEP encryption for my USR805416
> >>card. I am using a US-Robotics AccesPoint (USR808054) in with 128-bit
> >>key and "shared key only" set. On my computer I set the key with
> >>iwconfig an then set the card to restricted mode. When running iwconfig
> >>again I am then no longer able to see the access point or to connect to
> >>the network.
> >>Without WEP the card works fine, although performance is often low, wich
> >>may be due to the thick concrete wall between the ap and my machine.
> >>
> >>Im using gentoo Linux (kernel 2.4.26), driverloader 2.04 and the USR
> >>Windows Drivers (5.0j).
> > 
> > Hi,
> > use either driver 4.0q you can find on linuxant web site
> > (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php)
> > or latest ones (6.0b14 you can download from http://www.usr.com)
> > if you want 125Mb/s and WPA
> > bye Cristiano
> > 
> > 
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