Configuring DWL-520 wireless network card

[Roger Oberholtzer]

What gets listed in /var/log/messages during all this?

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:32:03 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> Well, I now have a 2.4.23 kernel supposedly with drivers
> for the Prism 2.5 cards.  I am not sure which driver is
> the one to use, since on the internet you can find all
> sorts of recommendations.
> 
> The card wasn't automatically detected or configured at
> boot.
> 
> So, I modprobe'd everything I could find which sounded
> interesting, and only this module loaded and detected
> the card.
> 
> modprobe prism2_pci
> 
> iwconfig gives this:
> 
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 16
> of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> Some things may be broken...
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:""
>           Mode:Auto  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Encryption key:off
> 
> 
> All the other drivers either wouldn't load, or loaded
> without complaint, but iwconfig didn't show anything.
> 
> 8211.o
> airo.o
> airo_cs.o
> hermes.o
> orinoco.o
> orinoco_cs.o
> orinoco_pci.o
> orinoco_plx.o
> orinoco_tmd.o
> hostap.o
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> However, attempts to use iwconfig result in error messages, like:
> iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.
> iwconfig wlan0 key 1234-1234-12
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.


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