Re: [gentoo-user] WPA Supplicant

[Ovidiu Bivolaru]

AJ Spagnoletti wrote:
 After several days of googling and searching for a solution to this I
 am still clueless so I will pose the question to the list. At my dorm
 I have a wireless router (WRT54G) with a WPA encryption on it. I am
 trying to configure WPA Supplicant to connect to this router but I am
 getting an error with it. First here is my net conf file and my
 wpa_supplicant.conf files

 modules=( wpa_supplicant )
 wpa_supplicant_eth1=-Dwext
 config_eth1=( dhcp )

 and

 ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
 ctrl_interface_group=0
 ap_scan=1

 network={
 ssid=Easy_Mac
 proto=WPA
 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
 pairwise=CCMP TKIP
 group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
 psk=k8aqn2zcz497zupa
 priority=5
 }

 Now here is the error message I am receiving

 Dragon wpa_supplicant # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
  * Caching service dependencies ...   [ 
 ok ]
  * Starting eth1
  *   Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...
 Line 14: Invalid PSK 'k8aqn2zcz497zupa'.
 Line 14: failed to parse psk 'k8aqn2zcz497zupa'.
 Line 16: WPA-PSK accepted for key management, but no PSK configured.
 Line 16: failed to parse network block.
 Failed to read or parse configuration 
 '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
 /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 231: 13831 Segmentation fault
  /sbin/start-stop-daemon '--start' '--exec' '/sbin/wpa_supplicant'
 '--pidfile' '/var/run/wpa_supplicant-eth1.pid' '--' '-Dwext'
 '-c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' '-W' '-B' '-ieth1'
 '-P/var/run/wpa_supplicant-eth1.pid'[ !! ]


 The wireless card I am using is the intel pro wireless 3945

 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
 Network Connection (rev 02)

 note the card works fine with no encryption or a wep encryption using iwconfig

 Thanks
 AJ
   

Use: psk=k8aqn2zcz497zupa


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Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

[Ovidiu Bivolaru]

Hi,

Mick wrote:
 On Monday 20 August 2007, James Ausmus wrote:
   
 On 8/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was
 probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally
 friendly . . .
   
 [snip...]

   
 SOLUTION:

 Since all of this started with an update of the MS Windows drivers I
 thought that the problem has to do with some firmware or new setting,
 that the MS Windows drivers inflicted on the card.  Some relevant
 searching brought me to this page http://www.scyld.com/modules.html and
 the comments under The D3-cold problem.  Well, no sooner had I
 rebooted, after pulling the plug for a few seconds to make sure the
 machine powers down completely, the card was at long last recognised and
 an IP address obtained.  It seems then that the MS Windows driver shuts
 down the power to the card and the Linux driver does not/cannot switch it
 back on.
   
 Make sure you pass this info along to the kernel-side maintainer of
 the 8139 driver you are using so that they can get the issue fixed.
 You can find the maintainer in the source file - in this case,
 /usr/src/linux/drivers/8139too.c - looks like it's Jeff Garzik.

 -James
 

 Done.

   

Any update on this issue ? I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r5 (r2) and
I'm seeing the same problem (with gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4 the same).

Regards,
Ovidiu

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Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.

[Ovidiu Bivolaru]

I'm interested in IFC patch. Where did you get it ? Thanks.

Regards,
Ovidiu

fire-eyes wrote:
 I am having a very irritating problem with the wireless driver and
 card above. Sometimes, but not all the times, it gets into this phase
 where the wireless drops, comes back, drops, comes back (etc) and
 eventually I start seeing this in kernel logs:

 ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.

 Unloading and reloading the module does not stop the issue, when it
 has begun. I have done some searching, and the typical advice is to
 make sure hardware crypto is off, by loading it like so:

 modprobe -v ipw2200 hwcrypto=0

 However this never stops it, or even causes it to calm down a bit.

 The most frustrating thing, is that this does not happen all the time.
 I use multiple wireless networks. All of them wide open, except for
 one, which was mine at home with WPA. That AP since bricked (warning:
 avoid LInksys WRT54G v5's, i'm not the only one this happened to) so I
 can no loner test. But when I used it, i saw the same things as I am
 describing here.

 Software and Hardware information:
 IBM Thinkpad T43
 Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g
 Kernel 2.6.18.1-ifc (ifc is a very small intel fan control patch)
 ipw2200-1.2.0
 ipw2200-firmware-3.0
 wpa_supplicant-0.5.5

 Any ideas out there? I have talked to others who have seen this, and
 none of them ever solved it...

 Gentoo Specific Information (some of this may be useful to others too)

 Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1,
 glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18.1-ifc i686)
 =
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 AUTOCLEAN=yes
 CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu
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 /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
 /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/
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 DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
 FEATURES=autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox
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 http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo;
 LINGUAS=en
 MAKEOPTS=-j5
 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
 PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
 --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
 --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
 PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
 PORTDIR=/usr/portage
 PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
 SYNC=rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
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 Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
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Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.

[Ovidiu Bivolaru]

I did. Thanks. 
You can find newer version here:
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code/ibm-acpi-0.12a-2.6.17-fan.patch

Regards,
Ovidiu

fire-eyes wrote:
 Ovidiu Bivolaru wrote:
   
 I'm interested in IFC patch. Where did you get it ? Thanks.
 

 Well, it's IBM Fan Control patch, not Intel Fan Control, so I was wrong.
 not sure if it will work outside of an IBM Thinkpad.

 I looked and looked, but I can't seem to find this patch. So I'll just
 post the source.

 It says it's for 2.6.15 but I have it working fine on 2.6.18.1, it just
 mentions it was offset by a few lines.

 http://fire-eyes.org/ibm-fan-control-2.6.15-any.patch

 Please let me know when you have downloaded it, or if you still wanted
 it at all.
   

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