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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:17:17 +0000
From: Dave Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
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To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: orinoco (Lucent/Agere 9.48) unable to connect
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On 04/11/2013 20:29, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 20:42 +0200, Beeblebrox wrote:
>>> What kind of access point are you trying to connect to?  These devices
>>> only support 802.11b, so if the access point is newer and is using
>>> 802.11n, there are some 11n configurations that simply don't support
>>> connections from 11b clients.
>>> Dan
>> Hi Dan, thanks for your answer.
>> The test A/P is a USR-5451-maxG with ddwrt as OS. A/P is on mixed mode
>> (B+G), but after your mail I tried B-Only mode, which failed also.
>> While observing the connection process, I got the feeling that the
>> orinoco card (eth1) is unable to set an IP. I have tried static and
>> dhclient, with same effect. Shortly after the connection process
>> starts, the card status shows as connected, but does not finalize .
>> Process then terminates (assuming because no IP is agreed on with AP).
>>
>> Please advise what other info/test I can try.
> If you're able, can you use wireshark on another computer to capture the
> 802.11 frames exchanged between the orinico device and the AP?
>
Check whether you're using wext or cfg80211. IIRC, you have to use wext. 
If that's not working, the relevant bits of wpa_supplicant log (-ddd) 
would be helpful.


Dave.