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From: Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem (ipw2200)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:06:45
Message-Id: da5cd1900609160101o7ff154f7gc643e17fc17ea95b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem (ipw2200) by Jean Magnan de Bornier
1 Hi Jean,
2 unfortunately is it still not working even if i've tried changing
3 different lines.. (however this does not make very much sense). Can
4 you post me you /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf files?
5
6 Thanks,
7 Marco
8
9 On 9/10/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@×××××××.net> wrote:
10 > Le 10 septembre à 12:23:07 "Marco Calviani" <marco.calviani@×××××.com> écrit notamment:
11 >
12 > | Hi Jean,
13 > >
14 > | the result of
15 > | $ dhcpcd -v LOG_DEBUG -d 2 eth1
16 > | is
17 > | Error, dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
18 > >
19 > | even if iwconfig shows:
20 > >
21 > | eth1 unassociated ESSID:"home"
22 > | Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:2C:F9:08:3B:6D
23 > | Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
24 > | Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
25 > | Encryption key:(mykey) Security mode:restricted
26 > | Power Management:off
27 > | Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
28 > | Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
29 > | Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
30 > >
31 > >
32 > | and here's my wpa_supplicant.conf
33 > >
34 > | ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
35 > | ctrl_interface_group=0
36 > >
37 > | eapol_version=1
38 > >
39 > | ap_scan=1
40 > >
41 > | fast_reauth=1
42 > >
43 > | network={
44 > | ssid="home"
45 > | key_mgmt=NONE
46 > | wep_key0=(mykey)
47 > | wep_tx_keyidx=0
48 > | priority=5
49 > | auth_alg=SHARED
50 > | }
51 >
52 > [...]
53 >
54 > Hi Marco,
55 > I hope someone will help you better, I just can say I solved my own wifi
56 > problems with wpa_supplicant (wpa encryption) by commenting out one line
57 > of the recommended config and trying, then commenting out another one,
58 > retrying, and so on, until I had it working...
59 > good luck!
60 > --
61 > Jean
62 >
63 > --
64 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
65 >
66 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem (ipw2200) Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@×××××××.net>