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From: "José Pedro Saraiva" <nocive@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:18:43
Message-Id: 12a679470704251711g34b8fa4ak516bcee7747d869e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues by "José Pedro Saraiva"
1 Hi all!
2
3 I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless
4 adapter.
5 I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no
6 success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA auth).
7
8 # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart
9 * Stopping eth1
10 * Bringing down eth1
11 * Stopping dhcpcd on eth1
12 ...
13 [ ok ]
14 * Shutting down eth1
15 ...
16 [ ok ]
17 * Stopping wpa_cli on eth1
18 ...
19 [ ok ]
20 * Stopping wpa_supplicant on eth1
21 ...
22 [ ok ]
23 * Starting eth1
24 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...
25 ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable
26 Could not configure driver to use managed mode
27 ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable
28 ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable
29 WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily
30 unavailable
31 ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
32 ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
33 ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
34 ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable
35 WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily
36 unavailable
37 [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 -
38 * Starting wpa_cli on eth1
39 ...
40 [ ok ]
41 * Failed to configure eth1 in the background
42
43 Ugly, uh? :/
44
45
46 dmesg output:
47
48 ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
49 ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
50 ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
51 ipw3945: request scan called when driver not ready.
52 ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels)
53 ipw3945: Error sending SCAN_ABORT_CMD: time out after 500ms.
54 ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
55 ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels)
56
57 Some extra info:
58 I'm using the internal ieee8021x stack with gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5
59
60 * net-wireless/ipw3945
61 Latest version available: 1.2.0
62 Latest version installed: 1.2.0
63
64 * net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode
65 Latest version available: 1.14.2
66 Latest version installed: 1.14.2
67
68 * net-wireless/ipw3945d
69 Latest version available: 1.7.22-r4
70 Latest version installed: 1.7.22-r4
71
72 * net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
73 Latest version available: 0.5.7
74 Latest version installed: 0.5.7
75
76
77 # lspci | grep "Wireless"
78 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
79 Connection (rev 02)
80
81 # pcitweak -l 2>&1 | grep " 03.00.0:"
82 PCI: 03:00:0: chip 8086,4222 card 8086,1041 rev 02 class 02,80,00 hdr 00
83
84 # iwconfig eth1
85 eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
86 Mode:Managed Frequency= 2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
87
88 Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
89 Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
90 Encryption key:off
91 Power Management:off
92 Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
93 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
94 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:179 Missed beacon:0
95
96
97 /etc/conf.d/net extract:
98
99 modules_eth1=( "!plug" "wpa_supplicant" )
100 wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext"
101 associate_timeout_eth1="60"
102
103
104 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf extract (the problem isn't here
105 though, it fails with all types of configurations):
106
107 ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
108 ctrl_interface_group=0
109 update_config=0
110 eapol_version=1
111 ap_scan=0
112 fast_reauth=1
113
114 network={
115 ssid="XXXXXXXXXX"
116 priority=1
117 key_mgmt=NONE
118 auth_alg=SHARED
119 wep_key0="XXXXXXX"
120 wep_tx_keyidx=0
121 }
122
123
124
125 Sorry for the length.
126 Any help would be greatly appreciated.
127
128 Best regards,
129
130 José Pedro

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Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues Christian <mcr76@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues Will Briggs <will@××××××××××××××××××.au>