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Hi all! |
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I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless |
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adapter. |
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I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no |
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success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA auth). |
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# /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart |
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* Stopping eth1 |
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* Bringing down eth1 |
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* Stopping dhcpcd on eth1 |
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... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Shutting down eth1 |
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... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Stopping wpa_cli on eth1 |
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... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Stopping wpa_supplicant on eth1 |
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... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Starting eth1 |
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* Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... |
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ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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Could not configure driver to use managed mode |
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ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily |
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unavailable |
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ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable |
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WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily |
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unavailable |
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[ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 - |
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* Starting wpa_cli on eth1 |
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... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Failed to configure eth1 in the background |
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Ugly, uh? :/ |
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dmesg output: |
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ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. |
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ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. |
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ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. |
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ipw3945: request scan called when driver not ready. |
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ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels) |
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ipw3945: Error sending SCAN_ABORT_CMD: time out after 500ms. |
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ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. |
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ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels) |
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Some extra info: |
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I'm using the internal ieee8021x stack with gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 |
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* net-wireless/ipw3945 |
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Latest version available: 1.2.0 |
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Latest version installed: 1.2.0 |
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* net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode |
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Latest version available: 1.14.2 |
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Latest version installed: 1.14.2 |
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* net-wireless/ipw3945d |
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Latest version available: 1.7.22-r4 |
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Latest version installed: 1.7.22-r4 |
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* net-wireless/wpa_supplicant |
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Latest version available: 0.5.7 |
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Latest version installed: 0.5.7 |
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# lspci | grep "Wireless" |
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03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network |
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Connection (rev 02) |
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# pcitweak -l 2>&1 | grep "03.00.0:" |
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PCI: 03:00:0: chip 8086,4222 card 8086,1041 rev 02 class 02,80,00 hdr 00 |
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# iwconfig eth1 |
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eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any |
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Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated |
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Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm |
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Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off |
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Encryption key:off |
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Power Management:off |
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Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 |
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Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 |
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Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:179 Missed beacon:0 |
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/etc/conf.d/net extract: |
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modules_eth1=( "!plug" "wpa_supplicant" ) |
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wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" |
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associate_timeout_eth1="60" |
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/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf extract (the problem isn't here |
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though, it fails with all types of configurations): |
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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant |
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ctrl_interface_group=0 |
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update_config=0 |
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eapol_version=1 |
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ap_scan=0 |
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fast_reauth=1 |
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network={ |
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ssid="XXXXXXXXXX" |
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priority=1 |
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key_mgmt=NONE |
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auth_alg=SHARED |
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wep_key0="XXXXXXX" |
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wep_tx_keyidx=0 |
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} |
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Sorry for the length. |
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Any help would be greatly appreciated |
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Best regards, |
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José Pedro |
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