Hello Axel, On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:54:15 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> I've got an old Avaya PCMCIA card which uses the orinoco/orinoco_cs > driver. While ifupdown works fine with it, I can't get a wireless > network connection with wicd. wired network connections on the same > system work fine with wicd. > > syslog when connecting with "ifup eth1": > [..] > > syslog when trying to connect with wicd(-curses): > > [..] > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready > eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming > [..] > > /etc/network/interfaces and wicd both have the same WEP key and the same > wireless network interface (eth1) configured. > > Due to the "Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming" error > message I somehow suspect that wicd tries to use a feature not present > in this card and therefore fails. It's probably so. Can you please turn on debugging (if you can't find it in the client, /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf, "debug_mode=1"), and attach /var/log/wicd/wicd.log? Thank you, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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