Howard, What's the encryption of your AP? is that TKIP or CCMP? Atheors supports CCMP but iwi doesn't. -Cecilia
Howard Glynn Wrote: > I realize that this topic comes up time and time again but I've run out of > ideas to try after a frustrating evening yesterday, so I seek help! (PS I > work for Sun...) > > Media: OpenSolaris 2008.05 > > I've booted the LiveCD on my AMD Dual Core Desktop Box and nwam is able to > connect flawlessly to my WPA-PSK router, without any trouble whatsoever - > including dhcp via a wireless pci card ( i forget which ) that uses ath0 > > I try the same on my (older, experimental) Intel centrino laptop, both in > live CD and a clean new install, and it just refuses to play. The Intel 2200 > / iwi0 drops in and out like crazy in the dmesg output. nwam refuses to play > entirely, timing out. Going manual, with dladm and secobj's, gives the > impression of being connected, but the router logs don't seem to see > anything, and the speed column in the dladm output is suspiciously missing. > > Can anyone confirm iwi0 + WPA-PSK out in the wild, either manually or via > nwam, and what the general approach is if anything special? There seem to be > a few threads which imply this is possible, so maybe it is my hardware. > > The laptop is an Acer Aspire 1680 which works fine with wired solaris > normally; wireless has also worked fine with ubuntu and windows in the past > as well. > Per advice in a previous thread I setup nwamd to debug and have attached the > output file. > > Cheers, Howard > > > [i]Some of the useful threads I have followed included:[/i] > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=48486&tstart=210 > http://kr.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=19189&tstart=105 (towards > the bottom) > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=58335&tstart=30 > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=132773 > > [i]Some various snippets snaffled on a USB key:[/i] > howard at opensolaris:~$ svcs -a | egrep svc:/network/physical > disabled 10:35:08 svc:/network/physical:nwam > online 10:35:11 svc:/network/physical:default > > -bash-3.2# dladm show-secobj > OBJECT CLASS > MYHOMEPSK wpa > -bash-3.2# dladm connect-wifi -e MYHOME -k MYHOMEPSK iwi0 > -bash-3.2# dladm show-wifi > LINK STATUS ESSID SEC STRENGTH MODE > SPEED > iwi0 connected MYHOME wpa good g -- > > Extracts from /var/adm/messages include > > May 11 10:41:12 opensolaris mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: iwi0 registered > May 11 10:41:19 opensolaris iwi: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: iwi0: > ipw2200_master_stop(): timeout > Repeating ad nauseum: > > May 11 10:43:44 opensolaris mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTICE: iwi0 link down > May 11 10:43:45 opensolaris mac: [ID 744254 kern.info] NOTICE: iwi0 link up > May 11 10:43:49 opensolaris mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTICE: iwi0 link down > May 11 10:43:50 opensolaris mac: [ID 744254 kern.info] NOTICE: iwi0 link up > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- Cecilia.Hu at Sun.COM Solaris x86 Engineering, Sun Microsystems +86-10-82618200 ext. 82947 / 62673947
