Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas! I recently bought a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. I purposely got an Intel 3945 wireless card installed, because I read that it was more linux friendly than the dell wireless card. I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. I get an error error for wireless request Set Encode (8B2A) Operation not supported when I run # iwconfig eth1 key 26 hex character key when trying to set the the encryption key for my home network. I'm certainly not going to turn off WEP encryption, so I need to fix this. Maybe you need to modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep and the relevant crypto algorithm modules? That's what I remember being the issue when the card generally works but WEP doesn't. I think the older wifi supporting code doesn't let you separate this stuff out, while the new code doesn't automatically handle loading modules when necessary. I remember dmesg being more informative than iwconfig when it fails, also. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
Peter Kelly wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. Are you sure about that? It doesn't do that for me. Try a 'ps ax | grep ipw'. In addition to the kernel daemons [ipw3945/0] and [ipw3945/1], there should be an instance of the userspace daemon /sbin/ipw3945d, which for me is not started except through /etc/init.d/ipw3945d. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On Sunday 12 November 2006 14:02, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't get it configured. Well I can attest that the wep will work with this card...I have it working. What versions of net-wireless/ipw3945, net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode, net-wireless/ipw3945d, and net-wireless/ieee80211 do you have installed? In other words, what is the output of: emerge -pv net-wireless/ipw3945 net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode \ net-wireless/ipw3945d net-wireless/ieee80211 And I suppose the outputs of iwconfig -v and iwconfig could help too. Thanks, Richard. I'm not sure how I did it, but suddenly it 'just worked'. What I can't do is /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart If I shut it down, then I need to either reboot or kill the ipw3945d, then start it again. I put the ipw3956d call in /etc/conf.d/local.start, which brings it up fine. Very kludged, but maybe once I get X running at more than 1024x768 I'll spend more time on it. Getting the wireless part working so I could emerge away from a switch was the first biggie. Peter -- clone, n: 1. An exact duplicate, as in our product is a clone of their product. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy, as in their product is a clone of our product. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On 11/13/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I can't do is /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart If I shut it down, then I need to either reboot or kill the ipw3945d, then start it again. I put the ipw3956d call in /etc/conf.d/local.start, which brings it up fine. Rather than starting ipw3945d in local.start, it is probably better to start/stop it with the module. You should have a /etc/modules.d/ipw3945 file that contains: install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.2; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; sleep 0.2; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 alias pci:v8086d4222sv*sd*bc*sc*i* off alias pci:v8086d4227sv*sd*bc*sc*i* off If so, run modules-update to regenerate /etc/modules.conf and activate the instructions. Note: I'm not sure which of the above lines I modified myself and which ones came from the ipw3945 package. But the first line starts the daemon when the module is loaded, the second stops it when the module is unloaded, but only if you use modprobe -r ipw3945. It will _not_ work correctly if you do rmmod ipw3945. The third and fourth lines prevent the module from being loaded automatically by udev, and are necessary because /var on my system isn't mounted when udev starts. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start Also, make sure that you have pressed the WiFi button to switch on the hardware on that laptop, or have switched it on in the BIOS (not familiar with the model). -- Regards, Mick pgptrk55LRLNH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On Sunday 12 November 2006 02:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start Also, make sure that you have pressed the WiFi button to switch on the hardware on that laptop, or have switched it on in the BIOS (not familiar with the model). Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't get it configured. Thanks. Peter -- Linus Torvalds: This is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 Winfried Truemper: Umh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit working today and rise on easter? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't get it configured. Well I can attest that the wep will work with this card...I have it working. What versions of net-wireless/ipw3945, net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode, net-wireless/ipw3945d, and net-wireless/ieee80211 do you have installed? In other words, what is the output of: emerge -pv net-wireless/ipw3945 net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode \ net-wireless/ipw3945d net-wireless/ieee80211 And I suppose the outputs of iwconfig -v and iwconfig could help too. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
