OZ wireless problems

[micros]

* Hi,

I am trying to configure OZ to work with CF wireless (recognized as Senao CF by OZ 3.3.5). I successfully used my CF with Sharp Rom: everything worked fine. Now it happens that after having configured it I can see the card trying to capture signal in all the channel even if I  have set it to look only to channel 6. Moreover AP is not found at all (it prints 44:44:44:44:44). The same behaviour using OZ 3.2. I have verified that parameters set in /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf does match with the ones printed out by the command "cardctl info". I have no more idea, what can I do ? Does anybody has had such a problem. Thanks vey much,

  MicRos.

[bredroll]

if you do,

#$ cardctl ident

what do you get.

I had this with a very cheap prism1 based card, i gave up on it in the end as it would only work 1/2 the time when it was in my laptop.

[micros]

* Hi,

this is the output I get using the comand you said:

Socket 0:
  product info: "INTERSIL", "HFA384x/IEEE", "Version 01.02", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)
 
Socket 1:
   no product info available

The strange thing I don't understand is why this card is fully working with original Sharp ROM and is not working at all with OZ (tried 3.2 and 3.3.5). Thank you very much for your support,

  Micros.

[micros]

After some try I have found the problem: wep encryption. If I set my AP to WEP off and accordingly OZ everything work !!!

Now what I don't know is how to set wep. I mean I need to set up a required shared key authentication and use a 128 bit encryption starting from a string. From the graphical interface it is no possible to set all these thing so I have tried manually to set up /etc/network/interfaces setting s:mypassphrase0 as key and inserting the key word "restricted key" but it does not work.

I have tried to look at OZ site to find a solution without success. Even setting it manually by inserting the command:

"iwconfig wlan0 key s:mypassphrase0"

does not work (receiving the error message SET failed on device wlan0; Operation not supported). How can I do ? Thank you for your answer,
  MicRos.

[CoreDump]

After some try I have found the problem: wep encryption. If I set my AP to WEP off and accordingly OZ everything work !!!

Now what I don't know is how to set wep. I mean I need to set up a required shared key authentication and use a 128 bit encryption starting from a string. From the graphical interface it is no possible to set all these thing so I have tried manually to set up /etc/network/interfaces setting s:mypassphrase0 as key and inserting the key word "restricted key" but it does not work.

I have tried to look at OZ site to find a solution without success. Even setting it manually by inserting the command:

"iwconfig wlan0 key s:mypassphrase0"

does not work (receiving the error message SET failed on device wlan0; Operation not supported). How can I do ? Thank you for your answer,
  MicRos.

Try a

modprobe hostap_crypt_wep

and see if it fixes your WEP problem.
If it does, just do an

echo "hostap_crypt_wep" >> /etc/modules

to fix this problem permanently.

[micros]

Hi I have tried the suggested command. After that I am able to run

iwconfig wlan0 -key s:mypassphrase0

and from iwconfig command I can understand to have correctly set my wi-fi card (the key is present and restricted mode is selected). By the way the card does not find the AP (it is shown 44:44:44:44:44) and wi-fi connection does not works.

Some other idea ?

[micros]

Hello everybody,

I have solved my problem. It has been sufficient to insert "s:mypassphrase0" as the key through the graphic configuration tool and not "mypassphrase0" as I did in the past.

Bye,
  MicRos.