I went home and tried it on my WPA2/Tkip&Aes & had the same problem. The problem is somewhere in between dladm (because wifi associates fine) & getting an IP address.
Bummed, Jonathan 2008/9/11 Fu, Zhonghui <zhonghui.fu at intel.com> > Thanks for your analysis about this problem. It will be very helpful to > others having the same issue. > > > Zhonghui > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan Wilner [mailto:krustyjonez at gmail.com] > *Sent:* 2008?9?12? 7:37 > *To:* Michael Li > *Cc:* Fu, Zhonghui; laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org; > nwam-discuss at opensolaris.org > *Subject:* Re: [laptop-discuss] Mercurial gate of Intel 4965 WiFi driver > is accessible to anonymous users now. > > Fixed it. Here's how: > > This reminded me of a bug Moinak Ghosh found in Belenix w/KDE - that zenity > failing made nwam fail and then DHCP. I saw the zenity error in > /var/adm/messages & the fact that my WLAN was listed but could not connect. > > He indicated the popup failure result was in > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/lib/nwamd/util.c#253 > > The root cause turned out to be with zenity & nwam. I enabled debug for > nwamd & saw that zenity could not pop up the 802.11 network selection window > due to an xauth issue. > > I did xhost +, restarted nwam, the window popped up, I selected my WPA > network, entered the key & got an IP address assigned. > > This made me go look at the NWAM list - where I saw the new NWAM + GUI. I > installed the .10 package & everything is working perfectly. > > > Michael Li wrote: > > I have a Dell D830(4G mem) with native Intel 4965(8086,4229), my home AP is > wep enabled, under snv_b97, haven't met the issue you described with nwam. > > Krusty Jonez ??: > > Any reason with the 4965 I can't get a DHCP address when connected to APs > with any encryption? I can associate fine with either nwam or regular > network/physical to WEP or WPA APs , but cannot get assigned any dhcp > information. Configuring the ip info by hand gets me online. > > If static IP can make you online, it should not be iwk driver issue. > > > It can associate and get DHCP info fine from open APs. > > I am using a 4965 in a Thinkpad T61 with 4gb ram. > > This has happened since at least Nevada b93. I am now on Nevada b96 bfu'ed > to 9/01 current. > > Do you mean you have ever get Intel 4965 work OK with earlier Nevada build? > Which one. > > You can try below commands: > 1. #svcadm disable physical:default > 2. #svcadm enable nwam > (with a popup, you can choose your AP, input wep key, if still fail to get > dhcp IP, then do next ) > 3. #svcadm restart nwam > (when fail again, please post the /var/adm/messages file and output of > "ifconfig -a") > > - Michael > > > > ----Original Message----- > From: Fu, Zhonghui <zhonghui.fu at intel.com> <zhonghui.fu at intel.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:07 PM > To: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: [laptop-discuss] Mercurial gate of Intel 4965 WiFi driver is > accessible to anonymous users now. > > > All, > At present, mercurial gate of Intel 4965 WiFi driver(iwkph1.5) is opened to > anonymous users. For more information how to download source code and > contribute code for this driver, please refer to > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/sierra/. At ths same time, the > package of this driver may be downloaded from this website as well. > In this version(iwkph1.5), Calibration and IBSS(adhoc mode) features were > added. Calibration provide a mechanism by which WiFi chipset may adjust it's > TX power according current chipset temperatrue and make sure a good > communication quality all the time. Furthermore, Calibration may adjust WiFi > chipset's receiving sensitivity and make sure not receive overmuch noise and > not lose useful wireless signal. Using IBSS mode, several wireless stations > may setup a wireless network without central AP. > Thanks, > Zhonghui > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20080912/95de75b7/attachment.html>
