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Old 03-26-2005, 10:58 AM   #1
javierisc
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Wireless WUSB11 - wlan0 device not found delaying initialization


Hi,

I have windows XP and mandrake 10.1 official installed in my computer, and i'm using a Linksys WUSB11 2.6 wireless card.

When i boot in windows, i am able to access the internet without any problem. If i decide to restart the pc and boot using linux, the WUSB11 works properly (wlan0) and i'm able to access internet. If I restart the PC and boot using linux, all works properly.

However, if i turn off the computer or unplug the WUSB11 device the next time i turn it on and boot in linux, i've got a an error saying something like this: "wlan0: device not found .. delaying initialization" and i dont have any network access.
By the way, I have hotplug enabled and tried disabling it, but it doesn't fix anything.

I've realized a way to reconfigure it booting in windows repluging the USB, and then restarting in linux, but this is really anoying and i'm planing to install only linux in a computer lab for a k-12 school because we want to get rid off windows.

Please help us to be able to migrate to the linux world...


This is the output of lsmod when the USB is not detected (wlan0 device not found...)

Module Size Used by
i810 69844 2
md5 3584 1
ipv6 230916 8
rfcomm 32348 0
l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap
i810_audio 33236 1
ac97_codec 16844 1 i810_audio
soundcore 7008 2 i810_audio
ipt_TOS 1856 12
ipt_REJECT 5536 4
ipt_pkttype 1248 4
ipt_LOG 5568 7
ipt_state 1408 9
ipt_multiport 1600 0
ipt_conntrack 2016 0
iptable_mangle 2080 1
ip_nat_irc 3376 0
ip_nat_tftp 2864 0
ip_nat_ftp 4048 0
iptable_nat 21164 3 ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc 70256 1 ip_nat_irc
ip_conntrack_tftp 2896 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 71120 1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack 28616 9 ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ tftp,ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter 2080 1
ip_tables 14624 10 ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_mangle,iptable_ nat,iptable_filter
af_packet 16072 0
floppy 55088 0
ide-cd 37280 0
cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd
loop 12520 0
nls_iso8859-15 4224 1
ntfs 147964 1
supermount 34804 1
intel-agp 19584 1
agpgart 27752 3 intel-agp
at76c503-rfmd 41732 0
at76c503 79552 1 at76c503-rfmd
usbdfu 4548 1 at76c503
uhci-hcd 28752 0
usbcore 103172 6 at76c503-rfmd,at76c503,usbdfu,uhci-hcd



And this is the output of dmesg....

Linux version 2.6.8.1-12mdk (quintela@n5.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)) #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ed0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ed0000 - 0000000007ef0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007f00000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feea0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
127MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fdff0
On node 0 totalpages: 32512
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 28416 pages, LIFO batch:6
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000e0010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQ003; 0x20020613 0x00000000) @ 0x000e0080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ SOLANO 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e0130
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ CORE_UTL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e13b5
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ VILLTBL1 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e1529
ACPI: MADT (v001 COMPAQ SOLANO 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e01a4
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ APIC 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e31c1
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PNP_PRSS 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e21f7
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ S3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2918
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PIDETM 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2abc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ GTF0 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2d71
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ SIDETM 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2c14
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ GTF3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e30aa
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ FINIS 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e331f
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDT 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xf808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:11 APIC version 17
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: COMPAQ Product ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #8 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Built 1 zonelists
Initializing CPU#0
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda3
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)
Detected 1395.497 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 125132k/130048k available (1859k kernel code, 4232k reserved, 578k data, 200k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 2768.89 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1400MHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
init init/main.c:689
init init/main.c:702
init init/main.c:707
do_pre_smp_initcalls init/main.c:653
do_pre_smp_initcalls init/main.c:659
init init/main.c:711
init init/main.c:714
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 8 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 8 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 8-0, 8-2, 8-5, 8-10, 8-11, 8-21, 8-22 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=-1 pin2=-1
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
number of MP IRQ sources: 32.
number of IO-APIC #8 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #8......
.... register #00: 08000000
....... : physical APIC id: 08
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
.... register #02: 08000000
....... : arbitration: 08
.... register #03: 00000000
....... : Boot DT : 0
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 04E 0E 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 90
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 91
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1
13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ19 -> 0:19
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ23 -> 0:23
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1395.0032 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.0645 MHz.
init init/main.c:716
init init/main.c:718
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
Freeing initrd memory: 55k freed
init init/main.c:724
do_basic_setup init/main.c:634
do_basic_setup init/main.c:636
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xe8761, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 01 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2440] at 0000:00:1f.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P3) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P2) -> 23
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I13,P0) -> 18
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1111830986.392:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 5
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2480-0x2487, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2488-0x248f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: GCR-8523B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
init init/main.c:726
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 19, io base 00002440
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 23, io base 00002460
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
3rdparty/at76c503a/usbdfu.c: USB Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) handler v0.12beta14-cvs20072004 loading
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: Generic Atmel at76c503/at76c505 routines v0.12beta14-cvs20072004
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: Atmel at76c503 (RFMD) Wireless LAN Driver v0.12beta14-cvs20072004 loading
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
usbcore: registered new driver at76c503-rfmd
Adding 514040k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000
Supermount version 2.0.4 for kernel 2.6
NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O DEBUG MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 2
usb 1-2: device firmware changed
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unable to get descriptor
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unexpected opmode 237
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: wlan%d disconnecting
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: at76c503-rfmd disconnected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: getting firmware failed with -32, or version is 0
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: this probably means that the ext. fw was not loaded correctly
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1016 buckets, 8128 max) - 328 bytes per conntrack
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8.1-12mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1016 buckets, 8128 max) - 328 bytes per conntrack
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 12:45:05 Oct 1 2004
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x2400 and 0x2000, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 17
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS96 (Analog Devices AD1885)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.3
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.3
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0322b60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[drm] Initialized i810 1.4.0 20030605 on minor 0:
mtrr: base(0x44000000) is not aligned on a size(0x12c000) boundary
[drm] Using v1.4 init.
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 4
usb 1-2: device firmware changed
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unable to get descriptor
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unexpected opmode 237
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: wlan%d disconnecting
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: at76c503-rfmd disconnected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: getting firmware failed with -32, or version is 0
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: this probably means that the ext. fw was not loaded correctly
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 6
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 6
usb 1-2: device firmware changed
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unable to get descriptor
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unexpected opmode 237
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: wlan%d disconnecting
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: at76c503-rfmd disconnected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: getting firmware failed with -32, or version is 0
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: this probably means that the ext. fw was not loaded correctly
 
Old 03-27-2005, 04:58 AM   #2
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Disable PNP and ACPI in the motherboard bios. Your driver is having problems grabbing the device.

3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unable to get descriptor
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: unexpected opmode 237
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: wlan%d disconnecting
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: at76c503-rfmd disconnected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: getting firmware failed with -32, or version is 0
3rdparty/at76c503a/at76c503.c: this probably means that the ext. fw was not loaded correctly


I have also seen wireless cards grab and hold mac and IP addresses(needing to be RMA'd), but I don't think this is the issue here.
 
Old 03-27-2005, 11:51 AM   #3
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Hi Thoreau, tks for the help...

I disabled ACPI stuff in bios and didnt find any P&P stuff (I've got a Compaq Deskpro ES4000), but still had the same error (wlan 0 seems not to be present, delaying initialization).

So i decided to download the at76c503a berlios driver (at76c503a.berlios.de), compile it and reinstall it. I had to add the kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk to build it and install it.

After installing it, i removed the wlan0 interface, and then added it again whith the Control Center GUI, and it detected it properly and worked..yup, i thought the nigthmare was over...

However, now i've got the following problem... when i restart the PC (or turn it off, and boot in linux) the wlan0 initialization takes ages, and it either shows an error saying that it enters promisc mode (takes a weird IP address) or it seems to be ok (IP seems to be ok, i cheked it using ifconfgil wlan0), but i dont have any network access in both cases.

i'll check the lsmod and dmesg outputs and post them here again... and hope someone can help me.
 
Old 03-27-2005, 04:48 PM   #4
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I'm not quite sure, but if you said it initialized, beyond that it's a configuration problem.

The distro's that I've had the easiest time with configuring wireless is Xandros 3.x and Suse 9.2. Mandrake, I don't think I've ever gotten wireless to work off the bat. Luckily we aren't in the mandrake forum, so it's ok to slam them.

It sounds like your config is static and not able to join the cloud with your wep key. You may want to also check out the routers firmware revision, and upgrade it.
 
  


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