[wplug] wireless pain - wpc11

[Robert Dale]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:

> I just installed debian on an aging thinkpad, and I went out and bought 
> myself a spiffy new wireless card for it- a Linksys WPC11.  I found a nice 
> howto online for it, followed the instructions as far as I can tell.  
> However, when I insert the card, I first get a happy pcmcia "I recognize 
> this card" beep, then the following message:
> p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame 
> dropped.
> 
> Can anyone help me to figure out why it's doing this and how to fix it?  

That seems to be 'normal' operating behavior.  I had to get the latest
pcmcia-cs package (3.2.1) from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ to get it
to work.

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Robert Dale