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On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote: |
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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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>> 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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>>> 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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iwconfig lists the interface as wlan0 |
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I discovered last night after sending my original message that my |
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symlink was wrong - I used to have net.eth0 and net.eth1 pointing to |
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net.lo. However, last night I removed the net.eth1 symlink and created |
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the net.wlan0 symlink to net.lo. Now when I boot the computer, my |
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wireless comes up and the LED comes on, but then it times out because (I |
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assume) it can't establish a connection. |
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This is my /etc/conf.d/net file. Note that the "any" used to work when |
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I used the ipw3945 driver. I would scan for available networks. I |
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tried last night to change the "any" to the essid printed on my Bell |
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router, but that didn't work. |
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# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* |
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# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, |
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# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration |
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# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!). |
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#preup() { |
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# if [[ ${IFACE} = "wlan0" ]]; then |
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# sleep 3 |
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# fi |
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# return 0 |
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#} |
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modules=( "iwconfig" ) |
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iwconfig_wlan0="mode managed" |
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config_eth0=("dhcp") |
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config_wlan0=("dhcp") |
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wpa_timeout_wlan0=15 |
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essid_wlan0="any" |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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