Yet another iwl3945 thread... [iwl3945 + wpa_supplicant]

streamkid

OK, I've read everything on the forums that came up on "iwl3945", plus a lot of googling. Result = 0.

ewaller · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject:

I think you are fighting the same problem as am I. It is chronicled at the post :https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-768398-highlight-.html

After you try to start your network interface, check to see if wpa_supplicant is running (ps -ef | grep wpa_supplicant). If it is not, try starting it by hand as by:

aidanjt · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:19 am Post subject:

See: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-769688.html

Long story short, you need to build all your wireless kernel modules as M instead of Y.
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g.e.n.t.u.x. · Guru Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Berlin

i configured a laptop 2 month ago with he same device. it goes about two weeks to set it up. i think me device gets working without the rfkill stuff in the kernel. you schould check your wpa-supplicant.conf and sync it with this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-743654-highlight-.html check out if group and or pairwise with both options just with one or with no options schould be set. also ist config wlan0= dhcp the option that he get the adressstuff from essid connected to, but how can he connected.

please dont you iwconfig for your device

streamkid · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject:

@ewaller: wpa_supplicant isn't running, and I can't start it manually either.

@AidanJT: I have everything as a module right now, but it still doesn't work.
Anyway, it must be clearly a configuration issue, because wicd gets it up and running.
I'll see what/how wicd gets it up and I'll post soon :-)

@g.e.n.t.u.x.: I have also tried w/out RFKILL support, but no luck. I'll check that wpa_supplicant.conf.

d2_racing · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject:

Hi, for the record, can you post this :

g.e.n.t.u.x. · Guru Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Berlin

did you put all rfkill support or just specificaly for the driver?

have also a look at keymanagment option. try only wpa or with wpa-tkip in the group and/or pairwise permutation. and you can also comment it out to look if this conf works.

streamkid · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject:

aidanjt · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject:

g.e.n.t.u.x. · Guru Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Berlin

is proto really wpa? is it hex or text and try it w/out ""

g.e.n.t.u.x. · Guru Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Berlin

me experiences are waln is hacking. my iwl3495 configuration is an other like that what i reed here in forum.

also i ask me why dhcp can be nessessary for wlan0. every one can use your ap?

next question is how is your ap configured. can u access with an other device do u setup mac filter?

ewaller · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject:

Streamkid:

I am concerned that you cannot start wpa_supplicant. Any chance of your posting any messages from when you try to start it manually?

AidanJT:

Interesting about the requirement that they be compiled as modules. I just tried that with a 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 kernel, and I still cannot get the init script to start wpa_supplicant without adding a preup() hack.

ewaller
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streamkid · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:10 pm Post subject:

@AidanJT: Yeh, on my 1st post they were built-in. After some more tries, I ended up with mac80211=m.

@g.e.n.t.u.x.: Why do I need dhcp? Eh... - About how the ap is configured, yes there is mac filtering. And the proto is not wpa, it's wep.

@ewaller: If you check my last post, I've written that I managed to start wpa_supplicant manually, though I get only 1Mb/s. And that has to be sorted out...