"Bad address"

mimithebrain · 04-08-2006, 02:43 PM

iwlist scan
[...]
ra0 interface doesn't support scanning: Bad address

root@darkstar: [...]#

What does "Bad address" mean? Do I have to pull the card out and plug it somewhere else?

thanks

d0odman · 04-08-2006, 02:46 PM

You could just have an unsupported card for scanning. Check the hardware compatibility list for your card and see if it's on there. If not, you're SOL.

mimithebrain · 04-08-2006, 04:11 PM

Yes, the card is unsupported. The Opensource drivers (from the community) is very broken, and the ones on their website is not well documented.

To what I saw, I need to recompile wireless tools and the drivers in order to support the new wireless extensions in the linux kernels after version 2.6.12 .

I'll make it work... somehow, then I'll post back here how I got the RT61 raLink cards work on slackware 10.1 (my profile is not a good indication of what distro I use: I have about 4 different computer with different distros...)