Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

[Canek Peláez]

I'm using the latest kernel, with the ipw2200 driver it provides (not
the one in portage). Evrything works great in WPA, but I don't use the
-Dipw option of wpa_supplicant; I use -Dwext: the tip is in

  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200

I'm using the suspend2 sources, so I don't have 2.6.17 yet.

Canek

On 8/21/06, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:53:52PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked:
> > I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly
> > gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great
> > success.  I have never had any wireless problems, using the ipw2200
> > centrino.  I've not changed kernels for a long while, still running
> > 2.5.15 something.  Never a hiccough.
>
> Upgrading your kernel might be a good idea.
>
> > Then, after installing ubuntu, accessing a few access points, suddenly
> > the module for ipw2200 won't install consistently, and I get an error,
> > the most recent error was "-1" but there was another number earlier.
>
> I take it that you are trying to install the net-wireless/ipw2200
> package? (since it does not come built into the kernel until somewhere
> around 2.6.8)
>
> > Well, at school today, confounding all this, the wireless access
> > points have now been set up with WPA keys.  Trying WEP keys with
> > Ubuntu was unsuccessful, after failling w/ gentoo altogether.  Then
> > when trying to run "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start" again, as I've been
> > doing, there is no happiness, and I tracked down this failure to load
> > the module.  After a couple of tried, the module did, I think load,
> > but because of the WPA setup, I cannot figure out how to access the
> > net.  Back to ubuntu, back to gentoo---again module problems.  These
> > are firmware problems, failture to load firmware, not the ipw2200
> > module, sorry.
>
> Which versions of firmware/ipw2200/kernel are you running here
> exactly?
>
> > Ubuntu too, I cannot figure out how to use the WPA key.
>
> We should tackle one thing at a time. But have you looked at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup
>
> W
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

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