Subject: Re: confirmation of initial problem and change of behaviour
Package: wireless-tools
Version: 30~pre9-4
Severity: grave
I did observe the same behaviour (as in bug 573327) two weeks (or so)
ago on my laptop with atheros Wifi-lan, therefore I switched back to a
wired connection again. To me it sees to be related with the inability of
iwconfig to associate the wireless card to my acces-point.
Currently the garbling of the essid apears to have been solved.
But iwconfig is still not able to associate my atheros
(lspci: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001
Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01))
to the accesspoint as before the beginning of february 2010.
Under Kubuntu-9.04 on the same machine the connection is functional,
so to me it looks like a debian-problem.
Reverting back to version wireless-tools 28-1 did not solve the problem for my
case, so to me its a bit confusing.
Another small confusion was the change of name of the interface from
ath0 to wlan0 after I finished a fresh debian install.
The problem persists in both stock kernel 2.6.32-3-686 and my own 2.6.33.
please tell me if, and which other piece(s) of information you might require
to solve this, I 'd be gratefull for a solution (I 'd like to stick to
Debian like I did since Guus gave me those install CD's some 11 years
ago on the "Warande")
Example:
r...@hugin]/root/Wlan>/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid asgard
r...@hugin]/root/Wlan>/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
r...@hugin]/root/Wlan>iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"asgard"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
Power Management:off
pan0 no wireless extensions.
but when issueing:
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:13:10:3F:73:AF
The value for Access Point remains "Not Associated" and the
essid disappears completely.
would be nice to have this fixed, please ask me if you need
additional information.
regards, Hans de Jonge
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-hdj32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to nl_NL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libiw30 30~pre9-4 Wireless tools - library
wireless-tools recommends no packages.
wireless-tools suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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