ew-7317 usb wireless

sycamorex · 04-30-2008, 02:47 PM

Hi,
My wireless network is secured with WPA2, encryption AES, password
I plugged in a usb wireless dongle (edimax EW-7317) to my laptop on F9 beta, and to my surprise it was immediately recognised:

lsusb

Code:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi

lsmod (the relevant part)

Code:

zd1211rw       43524    0
mac80211      184928    1 zd1211rw
cfg80211       24712    1 mac80211

iwconfig:

Code:

lo     no wireless extensions
eth0   no wireless extensions
wmaster0  no wireless extensions
wlan0   network is down

Then after I've done:

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
               essid "myessid"
               channel 11
               key s:mywifipassword

then iwconfig showed:

Code:

wlan0  IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"myssid"
       Mode: Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: not associated
       Fragment thr=2352 B Retry min limit:7  RTS thr:off 
       Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
       Link Quality:0 Signal Level:0 Noise level:0
       RX invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
       Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0 MIssed beacon:0

iwlist scan

Code:

...
...
...
wlan0 interface doesn't support scanning: Network is down

I've never managed to get any wifi to work under linux

so I'm
still a newbie when it comes to networking.

What do I do next?

thanks