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polqwa
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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 10:56 am Post subject: Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wireless problems for new user |
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Hi all
I am a new (gentoo) user, and I am having trouble getting wireless to work
I have a
lspci -k:
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03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 3e)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
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and I have CFG80211, MAC80211, IWLWIFI enabled in kernel
I have emerged sys-firmware/iwl6000-ucode;
I have emerged wpa_supplicant and have the following:
/etc/conf.d/net:
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modules_wlp3s0="wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_wlp3s0="-Dnl80211"
config_wlp3s0="dhcp"
config_eth0="dhcp"
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/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1
network={
ssid="XXX"
psk="XXX"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
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"iw dev" shows my wlp3s0, ifconfig shows the wlp3s0, iw dev wlp3s0 scan shows my wireless point.
HOWEVER after making the net.lo - net.wlp3s0 link and starting, I get the following error:
/etc/init.d/net.wlp3s0 restart
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* Bringing up interface wlp3s0
* Starting wpa_supplicant on wlp3s0 ...
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant [ ok ]
* Starting wpa_cli on wlp3s0 ...
Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wlp3s0 error: No such file or directory
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/wpa_cli' [ !! ]
* ERROR: net.wlp3s0 failed to start
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Can anyone help, as I have read many forum posts and the hours have been very frustrating.
Thank you in advance! |
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polqwa
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 7:46 am Post subject: |
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I really could use a hand here, this is so frustrating
Any pointers? |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 9:38 am Post subject: |
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polqwa ...
sorry, I did see this first time round but as I couldn't see anything obviously wrong wasn't sure what to ask.
The error seems staightforward, its not finding /run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0, but I can't see why as wpa_supplicant is started without error.
So, tmpfs is enabled in the kernel? Is there anything in dmesg? Can you add the following to conf.d/net and post/pastebin the log ...
| Code: | | wpa_supplicant_wlp3s0="-Dnl80211 -d -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log" |
best ... khay |
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swimmer
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe using "wext" as driver instead of "nl80211"?
hth
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| swimmer wrote: | | Maybe using "wext" as driver instead of "nl80211"? |
swimmer ... iwlwifi uses mac80211, a 802.11 layer, cfg80211 communicates with this layer and so its not using wext. Of course if CFG80211_WEXT is enabled then '-D wext' would work ... but its using the compatibility layer rather than wext itself. Anyhow, 'nl80211' is the correct (wpa_supplicant) driver for this card.
best ... khay |
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Logicien
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 8:14 am Post subject: Re: Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wireless problems for new user |
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| polqwa wrote: |
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and I have CFG80211, MAC80211, IWLWIFI enabled in kernel
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HOWEVER after making the net.lo - net.wlp3s0 link and starting, I get the following error:
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If you have configure CFG80211, MAC80211 and IWLWIFI to be enabled in the kernel image in hard (*), try to put them in modules (m). I can change the Linux behavior.
Are you sure that net.wlp3s0 point to net.lo in the /etc/init.d directory?
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wireless problems for new user |
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| Logicien wrote: | | If you have configure CFG80211, MAC80211 and IWLWIFI to be enabled in the kernel image in hard (*), try to put them in modules (m). I can change the Linux behavior. |
Logicien ... but this issue is with wpa_supplicant, it starts but wpa_cli doesn't find the ctrl_interface, also the interface is shown in iw, and ifconfig, so I don't think this is an issue with the drivers being modules or not.
| Logicien wrote: | | Are you sure that net.wlp3s0 point to net.lo in the /etc/init.d directory? |
In the above, net.wlp3s0 starts wpa_supplicant so the symlink must point to net.lo
best ... khay |
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