[gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
I'll throw two chickens in one pot. 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. 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. 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. Ubuntu too, I cannot figure out how to use the WPA key. Now I'm at a wifi access point cafe, and cannot get gentoo to work at all, even with this unsecured site. Ubuntu does work. So my questions are how to get WPA to work, with both, and what the heck is going on with the firmware? I suspect that ubuntu loads firmware that is incompatible with gentoo. Thanks for any help with any of the above. Alan Davis -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
On 8/21/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that ubuntu loads firmware that is incompatible with gentoo. More likely you just don't have the right firmware installed under gentoo. Check the dmesg output after attempting to load the module, and look for something about missing firmware. It would also help us to know if you are using the in-kernel drivers, or the external net-wireless/ipw2200 package. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
I am pretty sure I have the latest firmware installed---several versions are installed. I'll check whether I am using the package or the kernel-based firmware. I may upgrade the kernel, also. This will take a day or so. Thanks (again), Alan Davis On 8/21/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/21/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that ubuntu loads firmware that is incompatible with gentoo. More likely you just don't have the right firmware installed under gentoo. Check the dmesg output after attempting to load the module, and look for something about missing firmware. It would also help us to know if you are using the in-kernel drivers, or the external net-wireless/ipw2200 package. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
I use the sourceforge ipw2200 stuff - never could get the kernel stuff to work, even on simple networks. bunyip ~ # esearch ipw2200 [ Results for search key : ipw2200 ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * net-wireless/ipw2200 Latest version available: 1.1.3 Latest version installed: 1.1.3 Size of downloaded files: 399 kB Homepage:http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters License: GPL-2 * net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware Latest version available: 3.0 Latest version installed: 3.0 Size of downloaded files: 791 kB Homepage:http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters License: ipw2200-fw The above works! It might also be a good idea to bypass as much as possible of gentoos networking scripts (from experience, esp /etc/conf.d/net), at least until you get a working setup, then you can roll the changes back in and test as you go. They just do not work well when you have a dozen or more networks using vpn's, wireless. wired, wep, plain and wpa - mainly I think because of the way its documented means that while they tell you how to do many things, they dont tell you how or why, so its too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. I suspect they are trying to be all things to every possible combination, and fail dismally with wireless and laptops! And until I found a udev workaround, multiple network cards in a server :( BillK On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:53 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I'll throw two chickens in one pot. I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
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 -- BOOK...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 19:57 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- BOOK...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 19:57 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
