[SOLVED]help with ipw2100 kernel-2.6.14-r2 wpa_supplicant

[evillase]

I put gentoo on my laptop (compaq x1000) pentium-m 1.4ghz

i installed kernel-2.6.14-r2 no ieee80211 support no ipw2100 support
i emerged ipw2100-1.1.3 along with the latest firmware and ieee80211
compiled it.
eth1 is my wireless.
if i do /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start (with no sort of configuration for wireless) i can connect to someone's unencrypted accesspoint. so i know my wireless works.
if i do "iwlist eth1 scan" my access point and others show up

now the tricky part connecting to my wireless router.
my router:
linksys wrt54g (yes ssid is broadcasting)
wpa-psk encryption


i modified /etc/conf.d/net to have:
modules= ( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dipw" #if this isnt the right syntax it was right when i had it in the file. (its now deleted)

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf had:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="myssid"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="mypsk"
}

with wpa_supplicant-0.3.9-r1
i do wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ipw -dddd
i get some ioctl messages
then i get scanning for access point
skip essid='' mac
no good access point
start loop over
-D wext gives no ioctl messages but same loop

so now i upgrade to wpa_supplicant-0.4.6
and wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ipw -dddd
gives me ioctl messages and nothing else
-D wext gives me nothing

the closest i got was when i changed my router to wep
did /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start using /etc/conf.d/wireless with iwconf
it connected to my router, with wep, but dhcpcd hung and timed out

i need wpa_supplicant because i believe its the only way i can connect to wireless on campus (uses some sort of wpa tkip thawte thingy)
is there a way to get ipw2100 working with kernel 2.6.14-r2 ?
i have searched this forum all weekend for wpa_supplicant ipw2100 wpa or any permutation thereof.
tried all the suggestions i could find and it still doesn't work. am i missing something?
can someone who got this to work shed some light?

thanks.

[Da Fox]

This sounds like an almost exact double of https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-403299.html .
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[volkmar]

[evillase]

Da Fox: I saw that post, and although the initial problem was the same it was mostly talking about madwifi. I have Intel Pro wireless 2100.
but I still tried the relevant suggestions and I still was not able to get it working.

Volkmar: thanks a bunch!!! your config works for me. I guess I was just messing up the config.


So with these versions:

kernel-2.6.14-r2
ipw2100-1.1.3
ipw2100-firmware-1.3
ieee80211-1.1.6
wpa_supplicant-0.4.6

This works:
/etc/conf.d/net

[volkmar]

[-BarneY-]

Hm, I'm wondering, why there seem to be only few people having problems with ipw2100, wpa_supplicant and kernel-2.6.13 or higher.

My first try about one month ago with the latest stable ipw2100 1.1.2-r2, wpa_supplicant 0.3.9-r1 and linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r2 failed with random freezes (sometimes it runs several hours, sometimes only few seconds), especially after restarting the wireless device. Emerging the testing wpa_supplicant vers. 0.4.4 (if I remember correctly) did not solve the problem.

So I went back to kernel 2.6.12 and back to the wpa_supplicant ipw-Driver. Now, after the release of kernel-2.6.14 I was encouraged to give it a new try. Compiling the kernel with ipw- and ieee80211-module didn't work at all with wpa_supplicant. So I tried ipw2100 and ieee80211 from portage, and - well - nearly no errormessages in wpa_supplicant, but AP scan still did not work - and because of that it was still impossible to me to get a wireless connection.

Now I have read this thread and I compared the program versions you are using with mine. And after installing the new wpa_supplicant 0.4.7 it works!.

But I'm wondering, why there are no others having so much trouble with using ipw with wpa-encryption. It's not a freaky configuration I think, but it does not work with the latest stable packages and that is disatisfying.

[zigver]

[-BarneY-]

3. use ipw2100-1.1.3 or maybe highter

I just checked out the ipw-patches and found a wpa-relating patch. I think this one fixes the freeze-problem.

[bLaXe]

[r4di0_h34d]

Just popping in to say that volkmar's configuration worked for me too! I had one like evillase's with key_mgmt, pairwise, and group methods specified. When I took those out, it worked.