[ltp] No WLAN connection on Thinkpad X40

[John Locke]

Hi, Maarten,

Maarten den Braber wrote:

>I am running 2.6.8.1 and have installed the madwifi drivers from CVS
>(September 12, 2004) according to the [1]HOWTO on linux-wireless.org.
>The drivers are working ok, and my accesspoint (Asus WL-500g) is found.
>The problem is that I can't get a DHCPACK and configuring the network
>manually (e.g. ifconfig ath0 192.168.8.3 up) does not work. So I can see
>that the card is working, but can't get a connection.
>  
>
I had similar trouble after installing Madwifi from CVS last month. It 
had worked fine under the RPMs provided with Mandrake (but that version 
didn't resume from a suspend, or show the light).

>Scanning for networks gives the following output at one moment:
>
>| vortex:/home/mdb# iwlist ath0 scan
>| ath0      Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
>
>  
>
This was what I was seeing, too. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.

The solution, from the Madwifi list, was to set it to 802.11g mode, 
instead of auto:

[root@hunter john] # iwpriv ath0 mode 2

For some reason, the auto-switching mode doesn't seem to work, but if 
you tell it which mode to use, it works fine.

Cheers,
-- 
John Locke
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