[driverloader] Wireless occasionally not coming up on SuSE9.2

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

do you have any error messages left in your 'dmesg' that might explains 
the problem? Please try with different versions of the Windows XP driver 
to see if there is a difference.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Hi list,
> - every now and then when booting my 2100G wireless equipped IBM R50 with 
> SuSE9.2, I get...
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> IBM:/home/vk # rcnetwork restart
> Shutting down network interfaces:
>     eth0      device: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) 
> (rev 03)
>     eth0      No configuration found for eth0
>               Nevertheless the interface will be shut down.
>     eth0      configuration:                                          done
>     wlan0                                                             done
> Shutting down service network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  done
> Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config
> Setting up network interfaces:
>     lo
>     lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8                                 done
>     eth0      device: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) 
> (rev 03)
>     eth0      No configuration found for eth0                         unused
>     wlan0
> ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 key off' returned
>        Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>        SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
> ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 key open 20B41AF4F3' returned
>        Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>        SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
>     wlan0     (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.    waiting
> Setting up service network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  done
> IBM:/home/vk # /ifconfig
> bash: /ifconfig: Ingen sådan fil eller filkatalog
> IBM:/home/vk # ifconfig
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:456 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:456 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:34528 (33.7 Kb)  TX bytes:34528 (33.7 Kb)
> 
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F1:0C:6B:67
>           inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe0c:6b67/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:44 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------