Cannot set ESSID for Symbol PCMCIA card

[Doug Chan]

Dear all,

I would really appreciate greatly if someone can give me some help on this.

I am using the orinoco_cs module for my Symbol Spectrum24 PCMCIA card on Red Hat 7.3 with pcmcia-cs-3.1.34.  For some reason, I cannot set the ESSID for the card.  Using iwconfig, I can set all the parameters but ESSID.  

Furthermore, if I do a iwconfig eth1 config, I get such error msg:

Error for wireless request "Commit changes" (8B00) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

Judging from the var/log/messages, everything else looks good too.

With the same setup, when I plug in my colleague's Cisco Aironet card and restart pcmcia, I can set the ESSID and associate with an access point.

Can someone kindly give me some suggestions please?

Thank you very much,

Doug

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