ipw3945 wpa_supplicant & gui plus some other problems ..

[zogle]

so i am in the middle of an .... emerge -av world .... which might fix some problems but here is what i am currently working with.

i noticed when i suspend and travel somewhere (where the network i was connected to is no longer availalbe) when i resume everything and i mean EVERYTHING is sluggish and barely responsive. usually after killing the xserver and ... modprobe ipw3945 restart ... everything goes back to normal.
i am currently using wpa_supplicant (would like to use wpa_supplicant gui but can't get that to work for some reason error = "cannot connect to X server") did i miss a setting somewhere for my network adapter to reset and evaluate the AP selection upon resume? if this is still an ongoing issue can someone tell me a script that i could run as i suspend and resume ?

side note ... how do you configure wpa_supplicant to connect to a network with 64 bit 10 hex WEP encryption ?

gnome-power-manager icon .. ongoing problem. i usually kill the process restart hald and restart the process and everything works again.... has this been addressed yet ?
the script i use

[lonrot_m]

why dont you try networkmanager, i solved a lot of problems with my card (iwl4965) after using it, if you still want to configure it manually post again ^^.

[nillo]

[zogle]

thank you all for responding so quickly and sorry it took so long for me to do the same

the computer is very sluggish if i leave the module "ipw3945" active ... and connected to AP-1. then when i resume i am at a different AP .. call it AP-2. my interpretation is instead of rescanning.. it looks for the AP-1 and hangs when it can't find it.

i should note all is well when i modprobe -r ipw3945 before resuming and reload the module after resuming.
and for reference this is all using the wpa_supplicant.

as for the WPA_GUI ... no such luck .. even when i am connected the program can't seem to sync with the system. (same can not connect to X server error)

[edit]
so ... i added

network={
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-9999999
}
to my wpa_supplicant.conf and now wpa_gui works just fine .. =]
although i would like to know if there are any themes for this program ? cause its kinda ugly haha
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as for NetworkManager i use to use it until i was having similar problems that i never found a fix for. if i try to change AP. everything gets EFF'd up. and the same problem resuming if i am connected to AP-1 and resume at AP-2 it takes about 30 min to get connected to AP-2 =T

and as for the wep encryption .. that is what i have =T

and for a new problem ... i have a 500 gig mybook that is vfat formatted so i can use between my laptop (gentoo) and my desktop (winxp)... but i can not read or write .. ideally i would like to change the owner to my username "zogle" but neither changing that in the preferences nor "sudo chown zogle /dev/sdb1" nor loggin in as root and executing either command works .. any suggestions?
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[lonrot_m]

can you post your /etc/fstab?

usb or firewire??

and also have you tried using dbus and hal?
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[zogle]

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0

#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
#/dev/disk/by-label/data /mnt/pendrive ext3 noatime,user 0 2

/dev/sdb1 /home/zogle/Desktop/blackbook vfat noatime,user 0 2

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0


also do you know how to get the volume to mount at the location about /home/zogle... instead of mounting showing up as a harddrive and also mounting at that location ?? it kind of defeats the point no?

actually i don't know how to do either ... that is useing dbus or hal
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[lonrot_m]

you have to create a file 10-myrules.rules on /etc/udev/rules.d/

and add this line

[zogle]

hmm i tried that exactly and this is what i got

zogle@zi_nxbox ~ $ udevinfo -a -p `udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sdb` | grep ATTRS{serial}
ATTRS{serial}=="57442D574341533831323035383833"
ATTRS{serial}=="0000:00:1d.7"

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-myrules.rules
saved a blank file
sudo chmod aog+rwx /etc/udev/rules.d/10-myrules.rules
nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-myrules.rules
and this is what i copied all on one line:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="57442D574341533831323035383833", KERNEL=="sdb1", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="mybook"

nano /etc/fstab
and changed as instructed:

/dev/mybook /home/zogle/Desktop/blackbook vfat noauto,noatime,user,exec,sync 0 2

sudo udevcontrol reload_rules

and nothing happens ... i also did this
ls /dev -al
that reveal's no mybook .. but it does reveal /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 ..

troubleshooting as i am writing .. i now unplugged the drive .. and then re-inserted the usb cord
mybook has shown up in the /dev/ directory
the drive mounted successfully and i can read write etc.. on it..
one problem remains .. there is still a second icon that shows up for the drive ... the icon that would =T almost there
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everything is a function of time.

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[nillo]

Sorry, have had things todo.

[zogle]

thank you for your response .. and sorry it took so long to respond .. the wireless works just fine ... sorta. the problem i am having is related to switching AP's after a resume ... everything still becomes unresponsive for about a half hour ... now if i bring the module down ... via

sudo modprobe -r ipw3945

and then switch AP's .. and bring the module back up via

sudo modprobe ipw3945

everything is fine ... is there some configuration file i am missing or perhaps can write to execute while suspending and resuming??

thanks

[lonrot_m]

you can configure unloading and loading modules on /etc/hibernate/suspend2.conf

UnloadModules ipw3945
GentooModulesAutoload yes
# if it doesnt work try LoadModules ipw3945
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