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From: Sergey Kobzar <tod.zullu@×××××.com>
To: Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@×××××××××.de>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi & psk auth
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:44:14
Message-Id: 837739528.20080310224407@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi & psk auth by Jan Seeger
1 Hi Jan,
2
3 Monday, March 10, 2008, 10:33:32 PM, you wrote:
4
5 >> My kernel is Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r3.
6 >> Unfortunately I can't emerge iwlwifi (but maybe it's not required?):
7 > Yes, with 2.6.24, iwlwifi is not required anymore.
8
9 Looks like iwl3945-ucode firmware required only.
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11
12 > Then you haven't read mine^^. I actually have it working beautifully with
13 > WPA-PSK and unencrypted. Here's my wpa_supplicant.conf and my /etc/conf.d/net
14 > (with passwords removed, of course^^):
15
16 Thanks Jan, I got it working.
17
18 But during startup I get:
19
20 * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...
21 ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
22 WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 -
23 * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ]
24 * Backgrounding ...
25
26 Looks like I just have to ignore it?
27
28
29 > Also, I have a handy little script which I will attach. It stops the net.wlan0
30 > initscript, unloads the iwl module and reloads the module. The initscript
31 > automatically restarts.
32
33 Ah, that's why I could not get network working after
34 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart...
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36
37 > HTH,
38 > Jan
39
40
41 --
42 Sergey
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