wireless confusion

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torin · Post by **torin** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:09 am

I have a Thinkpad T60 and somehow my wireless is crewed up, here is some info:

uname -r
2.6.20-gentoo-r8

lspci =>
Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

so I compiled the following into the kernel:

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 <*>   Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)  --->
Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions
  [*]   Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink

emerged several packages:

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 genlop -l | grep ipw

Sat May 12 03:17:01 2007 >>> net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4
Sat May 12 03:17:03 2007 >>> net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2
Sun May 13 09:42:50 2007 >>> net-wireless/ipw3945-1.2.0

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
vmnet                  32036  8
vmmon                 167244  0
thinkpad                8836  0
fglrx                 651516  11
ibm_acpi               32408  0
backlight               8448  1 ibm_acpi
ipw3945               187940  1
generic                 8452  0 [permanent]

Then I created eth1 int /etc/init.d via:

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ln -s net.lo net.eth1

getagrip init.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
 * Unmounting network filesystems ...                                                         [ ok ]
 * Stopping eth1
 *   Bringing down eth1
 *     Stopping dhcpcd on eth1 ...                                                            [ ok ]
 *     Shutting down eth1 ...                                                                 [ ok ]
 * Starting eth1
 *   Configuring wireless network for eth1
eth1      no wireless extensions.

 *   Couldn't associate with any access points on eth1
 *   Failed to configure wireless for eth1                                                    [ !! ]

/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

* Starting eth1
 *   Wireless radio has been killed for interface eth1

any hints?

bilbravo · Post by **bilbravo** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:06 pm

Methinks you need more options in the kernel... specifically in the wireless (non-hamradio) networking section.

There are a few that deal with encryption, and 802.1x protocols.

torin · Post by **torin** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:03 pm

ok so I added:

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 ---     IEEE 802.11 WEP encryption (802.1x)
 <*>     IEEE 802.11i CCMP support
 <*>     IEEE 802.11i TKIP encryption
 <*>     Software MAC add-on to the IEEE 802.11 networking stack

but still to no avail, I also switched from wireless-tools to wpa_supplicant
so restarting eth1 gives:

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 * Starting eth1
 *   Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...                                                                                                                [ ok ]
 *   Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ...                                                                                                                       [ ok ]
 *     Backgrounding ...

but now KWIFiManager won't start anymore and DMESG returns:
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

Configuring wpa_supplicant.conf with a WEP-key returns the following error:
Line 14: Too long WEP key 0 '"51BFE8BC50EEAB79DD7B683609'.
Line 14: failed to parse wep_key0 '"51BFE8BC50EEAB79DD7B683609'.

The conf looks as follows:

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network={
  ssid="static-wep-test2"
  key_mgmt=NONE
  wep_key0="51BFE8BC50EEAB79DD7B683609"
  wep_key1=0102030405
  wep_key2="1234567890123"
  wep_tx_keyidx=0
  priority=5
  auth_alg=SHARED

So I wonder if it's a driver issue, a wpa_supplicant config issue or both?

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:57 pm

Your WEP key should not have quotes. wpa_supplicant tries to parse the " as an alphanumeric character and fails.