[Angstrom-distro-users] No WEP with Ambicom wifi CF card

[Ger Apeldoorn]

I've got exactly the same problem, but I thought it was the ancient 
flash version (1.4.2) in my Asus WL-110 card.

Ger.

Grigorios Prasinos schreef:
> Hello everybody
> 
> I just flashed yesterday my C750 with the image from 20070422.
> The quality of the ("unstable") image is very good, congratulations to
> everybody involved. 
> 
> However, I am having trouble with my wireless card: I cannot connect to
> WEP encrypted networks (connecting to unencrypted networks works).
> My card is an Ambicom WL1100C CF card, supported by hostap.
> The strange thing is that it was working without problems in recent
> OpenZaurus.
> 
> I get these messages when I plug it in:
> 
> <7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
> <7>ieee80211_crypt_wep: could not allocate crypto API arc4
> <4>wlan0: could not initialize WEP: load module hostap_crypt_wep.o
> <7>prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
> 
> (among other things).
> 
> It associates with the AP, but naturally it is of no use.
> iwconfig reports "Encryption key:off".
> 
> 
> I disabled WEP for a moment in my AP and I did "ipkg update; ipkg upgrade"
> which updated many packages, I also installed wireless-tools,
> kernel-module-ieee80211-crypt-wep and kernel-module-arc4, and run
> "update-modules", afterwards, but WEP still is not working (with the above
> messages).
> 
> When I try to set the WEP key manually with iwconfig I get:
> 
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
> 
> I searched in the bugtracker, but I didn't find any relevant info (some
> bugs were similar but not exactly the same).
> 
> Any help is appreciated. If no solution is found, I'll put it in the
> bugtracker.
> 
> 
> 
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