daseinhorn
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Location: Canada
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 Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject: Broken wireless networking since iwlcode update |
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An update to the iwl5000-ucode package was released this week. After I updated the firmware, networking upon reboot would not start. Here is the output from the console:
| Code: | * Bringing up interface wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* Scanning for access points
* does not support scanning
* You either need to set a preferred_aps list in /etc/conf.d/wireless
* preferred_aps="SSID1 SSID2"
* and set associate_order_wlan0="forcepreferred"
* or set associate_order_wlan0="forcepreferredonly"
* or hardcode the SSID to "any" and let the driver find an Access Point
* ssid_wlan0="any"
* or configure defaulting to Ad-Hoc when Managed fails
* adhoc_ssid_wlan0="WLAN"
* or hardcode the SSID against the interface (not recommended)
* ssid_wlan0="SSID"
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0
* ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start
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With the former version of the firmware, a basic DHCP setting was working just fine.
| Code: | xavier-portable xavier # cat /etc/conf.d/net
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
modules=( "iwconfig" )
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If I do as it says and add ssid_wlan0="any" to /etc/conf.d/net, I get this
| Code: | xavier-portable xavier # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Caching service dependencies... [ ok ]
* Bringing up interface wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* Connecting to "any" in managed mode (WEP Disabled)...
cat: /sys/class/net/wlan0/carrier: Invalid argument
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emerge --info
| Code: | xavier-portable xavier # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9500_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python: 2.6.2
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.fslutd.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US fr fr_CA nb no nb_NO"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage/layman/berkano"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 autoipd automount avahi berkdb bittorrent-external bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cddb cdr cdrkit cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cuda cups dbus dhcp dhcpcd dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds embedded emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac fluidsynth fortran fuse gdbm gif gimp git gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog jack java jpeg kate kde kdeenablefinal ldap libnotify mad mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg msn mudflap multilib mysql ncurses networkmanager nls npp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plasma png ppds pppd ptp2 pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection resolvconf samba sdl session skins sound spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification subversion svg symlink sysfs tcpd tga theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis webkit wiki wlm x264 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US fr fr_CA nb no nb_NO" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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iwconfig
| Code: | xavier-portable xavier # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=off
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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ifconfig -a
| Code: | xavier-portable xavier # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:85:da:26:97
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:496 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:315 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:219329 (214.1 KiB) TX bytes:71917 (70.2 KiB)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 B) TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5d:eb:aa:7e
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-21-5D-EB-AA-7E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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Do you guys have suggestions to fix this?
Thanks! |
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