problem with my new alfa 500mw usb

[wesmagyar]

i have been trying to set its encryption up and uh its not letting me ive tried both gui's and the command prompt its returning the following errors

iwconfig wlan0 enc 1bd2fe7259
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.

iwconfig shows the following

wlan0 802.11b/g ESSID:"Linksy"
Mode:Managed Channel=8 Access Point: 00:18:4D:7C:CD:1E
Bit Rate=-67.296 kb/s Tx-Power=25 dBm
Retryn Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
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

the essid was supposed to be Linksys but it came out like that as well
im stumped so far its worked fine with monitor mode in airodump and kismet its even properly cracked a wep key. i cracked an old linksys router i have worked great got the proper key and everything so im trying to connect and um yeah its not letting me set the key. any help would be appreciated.

also does it matter if im also connected by ethernet?
-Wes-

[shamanvirtuel]

have you try to :
ifconfig wlan0 down
unload driver
dhcpcd -k wlan0
rm -f -r /etc/dhcpc/*
reload driver
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig ..................

that's the way i do when i got some strange errors....maybe it will help you.......

[wesmagyar]

um question how do i load and unload the drivers for the alfa... i got it down pat with a prism card but cant figure out the alfa its the railink drivers.

[shamanvirtuel]

can you provide the exact reference of your card ......

i bet you use the wrong driver..........

[wesmagyar]

my card is a ALFA AWUS036H driver loaded according to airmon is

wlan0 Chipset RTL8187 Driver r8187

my card is the 500mw USB one

[wesmagyar]

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
rtl8187: Enabling 14 channels.
rtl8187: MAC chip version: 04
rtl8187: Card type: AD
rtl8187: Reported EEPROM chip is a 93c46 (1Kbit)
rtl8187: Card MAC address is 00:c0:ca:19:d5:45
rtl8187: CCK TX-Power (b-mode):
rtl8187: Channel 1: 5
rtl8187: Channel 2: 5
rtl8187: Channel 3: 5
rtl8187: Channel 4: 5
rtl8187: Channel 5: 5
rtl8187: Channel 6: 5
rtl8187: Channel 7: 5
rtl8187: Channel 8: 5
rtl8187: Channel 9: 5
rtl8187: Channel 10: 5
rtl8187: Channel 11: 5
rtl8187: Channel 12: 5
rtl8187: Channel 13: 5
rtl8187: Channel 14: 5
rtl8187: OFDM TX-Power (g-mode):
rtl8187: Channel 1: 5
rtl8187: Channel 2: 5
rtl8187: Channel 3: 5
rtl8187: Channel 4: 5
rtl8187: Channel 5: 5
rtl8187: Channel 6: 5
rtl8187: Channel 7: 5
rtl8187: Channel 8: 5
rtl8187: Channel 9: 5
rtl8187: Channel 10: 5
rtl8187: Channel 11: 5
rtl8187: Channel 12: 5
rtl8187: Channel 13: 5
rtl8187: Channel 14: 5
rtl8187: RF Chip ID: 05
rtl8187: Card reports RF frontend Realtek 8225
rtl8187: WW:This driver has EXPERIMENTAL support for this chipset.
rtl8187: WW:use it with care and at your own risk and
rtl8187: WW:**PLEASE** REPORT SUCCESS/INSUCCESS TO andreamrl@tiscali.it
rtl8187: This seems a new V2 radio
rtl8187: PAPE from CONFIG2: 0
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 00 : 8187
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 01 : DA0B
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 02 : 8781
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 03 : 0B00
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 04 : 0000
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 05 : 0045
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 06 : AD05
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 07 : C000
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 08 : 19CA
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 09 : 45D5
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 0A : 5D00
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 0B : 0000
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 0C : C600
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 0D : EA59
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 0E : A00F
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 0F : 0100
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 10 : 8888
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 11 : 8888
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 12 : 8888
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 13 : 8888
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 14 : 8888
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 15 : 8888
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 16 : 5555
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 17 : 5555
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 18 : 5555
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 19 : 7312
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 1A : 860C
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 1B : 5555
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 1C : 5555
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 1D : 1F03
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 1E : 4D61
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 1F : 6E75
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 20 : 6661
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 21 : 6374
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 22 : 7572
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 23 : 6572
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 24 : 5F52
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 25 : 6561
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 26 : 6C74
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 27 : 656B
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 28 : 5F52
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 29 : 544C
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 2A : 3831
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 2B : 3837
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 2C : 5F1E
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 2D : 0352
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 2E : 544C
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 2F : 3831
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 30 : 3837
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 31 : 5F57
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 32 : 6972
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 33 : 656C
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 34 : 6573
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 35 : 735F
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 36 : 4C41
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 37 : 4E5F
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 38 : 4164
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 39 : 6170
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 3A : 7465
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 3B : 7200
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 3C : FFFF
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 3D : 5555
rtl8187: EEPROM addr 3E : 5555
rtl8187: Driver probe completed

rtl8187: Setting SW wep key
wlan0: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep
bt ~ # modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep
bt ~ #
bt ~ # iwconfig wlan0 enc 5436801350
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
rtl8187: Setting SW wep key
wlan0: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep








this also showed in the boot up dmesg out put with it connected
usb 1-9: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
rtl8187: RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown
rtl8187: NIC in promisc mode
rtl8187: Card successfully reset
rtl8187: Dumping NIC register map

D: 00> 00 C0 CA 19 D5 45 00 00 54 01 2C 50 00 0A 80 00
D: 10> 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: 20> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00
D: 30> 00 00 00 00 44 5B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: 40> 07 07 F8 98 0D FC 5C 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: 50> 00 00 9D 10 59 0A 00 A0 00 AD 06 00 01 00 10 00
D: 60> 12 73 0C 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80
D: 70> 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
D: 80> A4 03 F7 1F 80 04 D4 02 44 00 10 00 08 80 0A 00
D: 90> 00 01 5E 07 02 00 C0 3D 00 00 00 00 00 0A 13 03
D: A0> 26 71 1C 01 19 14 2B 3B FF FF DB 3F 55 84 24 B9
D: B0> 00 00 8F C7 22 14 14 50 00 00 00 00 00 73 81 00
D: C0> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: D0> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C1 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00
D: E0> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: F0> 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 01 01 F9
rtl8187: RR:84 BRSR: f1ff
rtl8187: NIC in promisc mode
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
rtl8187: Setting SW wep key
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'


any ideas?

[shamanvirtuel]

is there any other driver ?

i see that :
rtl8187: WW:This driver has EXPERIMENTAL support for this chipset.
rtl8187: WW:use it with care and at your own risk and
rtl8187: WW:**PLEASE** REPORT SUCCESS/INSUCCESS TO andreamrl@tiscali.it

[wesmagyar]

is there any other driver ?

i see that :
rtl8187: WW:This driver has EXPERIMENTAL support for this chipset.
rtl8187: WW:use it with care and at your own risk and
rtl8187: WW:**PLEASE** REPORT SUCCESS/INSUCCESS TO andreamrl@tiscali.it

I have no idea. im rather new to this configuration stuff. where would i check that? it is my understanding that quite a few people on this forum use the exact same wifi card im using so they should know. however i have searched the forums here multiple times and no one has posted about this problem.
what is wierd is can do everything else just fine. Kismet works the whole aircrack suite works. it just wont let me set up WEP. i havnt tried connecting to an unsecure network yet. but i will try that probably later on today.

[wesmagyar]

ok here is the output from trying to connect to an insecure network no dice...

bt ~ # iwconfig wlan0 essid wesmagyartestnet
bt ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 802.11b/g ESSID:"wesmagyartestne"
Mode:Managed Channel=1 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=25 dBm
Retryn Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
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

bt ~ # iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Failed to read scan data : Operation not permitted

bt ~ # dhcpcd wlan0

then it just hangs. i know the network is there i am connected to it on my windows laptop. so yeah no idea. it is completly insecure no wep or anything. so add to the list of bugs it wont let me set the full essid it cuts off the last letter ive tried it with the network name in quotes and everything... its there. grrr this is annoying as hell.

[logman]

I am struggling a bit with this usb wifi device as well.
Any luck yet?