Hi, My fedora 12 detects my wifi card. But i'm unable to activate the device. When I try to do that I have the following error: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Thank you

Hi, > > This means you have not configured your network. > But how could you when the kernl has not detected > your wifi card? > > As I had indicated before, kernel 2.6.35 is the first > kernel > that started supporting the Ralink rt28xxx chipset. > > What kernel version are you running? Have you done yum # uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 06:57:55 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

> update since you > installed F14? Should I?

Thank you

> If you are still using the rt2870 based USB wifi device, > please run > > lsmod | grep rt2 > > and show the output. > [root@localhost wpa_supplicant]# lsmod | grep rt2 [root@localhost wpa_supplicant]# > Also, show be sure that you have configured > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf correctly. > Example below: > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > ctrl_interface_group=wheel

These two lines are all I have in my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > # ap_scan=1 > ap_scan=2 > > network={ > > bssid=aa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff # > This is a fictitious MAC address > of the router. You must change it to the real MAC address > of the router. I don't know what is the MAC address of the router. I don't have a router at home. I'm using wifi (windowze only at this moment) only in Cafes. I hope I don't need to ask the MAC address everytime I go to a different cafe to be able to use fedora wifi :-)

edik landave wrote: > iwconfig wlan0 essid MY_Access_Point_SSID > echo $? > #again this should be 0 && that means that It associated you to your > AP or router Why can't the Fedora/Linux WiFi interface show you available access points, like Windows, and ask you to choose the one you want?

From: mike cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: wifi troubleshooting To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 2:21 AM On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Adam Tong <helpcomm(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > My fedora 12 detects my wifi card. But i'm unable to activate the device. When I try to do that I have the following error: > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : >    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. This Error is typically seen when the "driver" for the card does not have the capability for the settings you are trying to change to. There are several things here, and firstly you are using a version of Fedora that is no longer supported.  I would suggest that you install Fedora 14 which is a big advance on F12, and has a lot of improvements to virtually every package. Secondly it is possible that Fedora 14 may support the functions you need, but you will need to give details of what your wireless card is, (eg use lspci or lsusb to get details of the card in use). It may also depend on the chipset in the card. Although the vast majority of wireless cards are now supported, there remain some that are not.  The device may get detected but unless the driver is supported then the system will be unable to set it up or send data through it. You are sure that you have both the correct driver and the correct firmware files, right? So a little more information first, and some may be able to advise you further, but many will likely suggest you update your system to a supported version before real help can be given. -- mike c -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Hi, My fedora 12 detects my wifi card. But i'm unable to activate the device. When I try to do that I have the following error: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

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