WLAN error 8B06/8B04 on Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G

[lester]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a total linux newbie so please bear with me. I'm just trying to get my wireless card (Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G) to work. I'd really love to experience wireless linux. Here's my problem:

I can only activate my wireless card if I manually set the IP address, subnet mask and gateway. If I use automatic or DHCP, the card won't activate at all. Aside from that, I always get error messages when I try to activate or reset the network. Here's a screenshot of the error messages.

[root@localhost Lester]# /etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down interface eth1: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable?
[FAILED]
Bringing up interface eth1: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Device or resource busy.
[ OK ]

I unplugged my ethernet cable because I've read in a recent post that Fedora 5 can only use 1 network at a time. It says [OK] after the error messages but my wireless card isn't really connected. I can't ping my wireless router's IP address. Again, if use automatic IP addressing that [OK] would instead be [failed].

Here some more information from iwconfig and ifconfig:

[root@localhost Lester]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"gonet" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:0B:4A:63:05
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:3930-3938-3137-3138-3234-0000-00 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=39/92 Signal level=-58 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1670 Rx invalid frag:2
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost Lester]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:4E:E7:48
inet addr:192.168.11.7 Bcast:192.168.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:21994 (21.4 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2809 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2809 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3472922 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3472922 (3.3 MiB)

Please help me get my wireless card to work. I'll continue to try other things and see if I can fix it. Thanks.

Lester

[lester]

I got rid of the 8B06 and 8B04 error messages and was able to successfully activate eth01 but I'm still not connected. I can't ping my router and there's no Internet connection. Is there anyone out there using the same wireless card (Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G). I hope you can help me verify if this really works with Fedora 5. Thanks.

[lester]

At last I was able to solved the problem. The first thing I did was to reset my wireless router to factory default settings to remove the WEP encryption, MAC address filtering, and other security settings that could be hindering me from connecting to my router. After that I was able to immediately connect, and one by one I turned on the the security features of my router. The most interesting thing I learned is that you have to precede your WEP key with a 0x if it is HEX. I've confirmed that Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G works 100% with Fedora 5.