Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan! sorry for the even longer delay - but dayjob was demanding, working even on sunday. However, if you can read this message, it means that I am connected through the internal ipw card to WEP WiFi at the first attempt. Wonderful. Great work, Stefan, Both patches together applied,

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-28 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 05:58:31PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > However, if you can read this message, it means that I am connected through > the internal ipw card to WEP WiFi at the first attempt. Wonderful. Great > work, Stefan, Great, thank you for confirming! I have committed the fix.

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-27 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hi Riccardo, Any feedback regarding the proposed patch below? Thanks, Stefan On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:09:32PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 02:11:39PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > > That means there is another bug. I will try to

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-17 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 02:11:39PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > That means there is another bug. I will try to find it. > > Could you show what 'netstat -W ipw0' looks like after an unsuccesful > > attempt of connecting to a WEP access point? > > ipw0: flags=8843

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan, Stefan Sperling wrote: That means there is another bug. I will try to find it. Could you show what 'netstat -W ipw0' looks like after an unsuccesful attempt of connecting to a WEP access point? ipw0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 lladdr 00:0c:f1:1f:b2:a0 index 1 priority 4

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stefan Sperling wrote: tecra$ netstat -W ipw0 ieee80211 on ipw0: 10 input management packets discarded This one looks bad. I think it means the net80211 stack ends up ignoring the AP's assoc response frame. I believe your situation is that the firmware is in associated state,

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 07:01:10PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:37:30PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Happy and bold, I tried WEP too... but it does not connect. > > It says interface is up (key is correct) but "nothing", dhclient doesn't get > > a link. > > > >

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:37:30PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > diff dfcb0a350e790649cafe6bd5f9f4cf2319ce75fd /usr/src > > blob - 20a9b617e6d7ae0e179370512376ce8142c96986 > > file + sys/dev/pci/if_ipw.c > > --- sys/dev/pci/if_ipw.c > > +++ sys/dev/pci/if_ipw.c > > @@ -1781,6 +1781,12 @@

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan, sorry for the delayed response, but dayjob took over and for that I unfortunately cannot use an old OpenBSD laptop with no wireless :) Also I had to use another system to conveniently do the tests you asked me. Stefan Sperling wrote: With WEP, if the key is wrong, the interface

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-11 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 08:05:53PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > sorry for the delayed response, but dayjob took over and for that I > unfortunately cannot use an old OpenBSD laptop with no wireless :) Also I > had to use another system to conveniently do the tests you asked me.

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-17 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:51:12PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > > Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Sounds like a wrong key, or the wrong type of crypto. > > Are you the AP is using WEP? Perhaps you need 'wpakey' instead of 'nwkey'? > > If the key is wrong or the crypto is wrong,

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan, Stefan Sperling wrote: Sounds like a wrong key, or the wrong type of crypto. Are you the AP is using WEP? Perhaps you need 'wpakey' instead of 'nwkey'? If the key is wrong or the crypto is wrong, would the interface still be active and connected? I am sure the AP is using WEP:

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 02:23:08PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Stuart and others,, > > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > I installed the firmware with fw_update. I try to bring the interface > > > up, I can set the nwid, but it never connects. > > What do you type to bring the

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stuart and others,, Stuart Henderson wrote: I installed the firmware with fw_update. I try to bring the interface up, I can set the nwid, but it never connects. What do you type to bring the interface up? If you are using /etc/hostname.ipw0 and "sh /etc/netstart ipw0", what are the

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021-02-12, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > The laptop has this network card: > > ipw0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100" rev 0x04: irq > 11, address 00:0c:f1:1f:b2:a0 Please send full dmesg, not an excerpt. > I installed the firmware with fw_update. I try to bring the interface

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-12 Thread Jose N Figueroa
Riccardo, Have you created the file in /etc/hostname.interface ? in your case it would be /etc/hostname.ipw0 if your interface is ipw0 and the WEP Key or WPA KEY should be added, also remember to add dhcp. After you created the file with the content I added below, you should be able to execute