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On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted |
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>> before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my |
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>> previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and |
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>> the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. |
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>> Things were so much easier when I could just use the ipw3945 driver. |
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>> However, I can't build that because it requires TKIP and CCMP, neither |
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>> of which I can find settings for in my active kernel, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1. |
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>> In one of the responses to my previous posts someone told me about the / |
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>> trick while in the kernel configuration to bring up a search menu. I |
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>> did this and the only reference I could find for TKIP was one related to |
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>> debugging. |
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> I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto. |
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>> So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I |
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>> followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I |
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>> got to the point where I was told to type the following: |
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>> ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer) |
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>> iwlist wlan0 scan |
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>> iwconfig wlan0 essid "network name" (where the network name is the |
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>> essid that has been set) |
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>> When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the "kludgy" |
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>> way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I |
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>> type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes, |
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>> I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the |
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>> kernel was rebuilt. |
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>> |
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>> I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. |
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> Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc |
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I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few |
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problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd |
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have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again. |
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Does "ifconfig" list the interface? If not, what does "ifconfig wlan0 |
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up" do? What about the output of "iwconfig"? And going for the obvious |
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here, any chance that the wireless is turned off? |
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Jake Moe |
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