Hi guys,
When I activate my wireless lan using:
ifup wlan0 i got the following error:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such file or directory.
and when I tried to change the Mod or the Encoding I got the following error:
#iwconfig wlan0 mode auto Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
iwconfig wlan0 enc off Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such file or directory.
My wireless lan card is Intel Pro Wireless LAN 4965 AG , and the device was working probably two days ago, so that I think there is nothing wrong with the device driver. Also now i can find many networks with iwlist scan but i can not connect to any one of them even my network.
I also checked the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 but I could not find any thing related to the encoding: # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=wlan0 HWADDR=00:13:e8:88:1e:23 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DOMAIN= ONBOOT=no USERCTL=no PEERDNS=no IPV6INIT=no ESSID='MSUNet Wireless Guest' CHANNEL=11 MODE=Auto RATE=Auto NM_CONTROLLED=no
any suggestions to solve this problem please ?
thanks
Osama Mahdi wrote:
When I activate my wireless lan using:
ifup wlan0 i got the following error:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such file or directory.
and when I tried to change the Mod or the Encoding I got the following error:
#iwconfig wlan0 mode auto Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
I'm no WiFi expert, but if ifup doesn't work doesn't that mean the device is not up, in which case iwconfig probably will not apply?
What do "ifconfig wlan0" and "iwconfig wlan0" (run as root) say?
Incidentally, my experience is that "iwconfig <if>" will return information about the last successful use of <if>, even if <if> is not currently in action, as long as the device exists.