On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:48:12AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 07:22 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> > I haven't been able to get the 'new and cool' iwlwifi driver included
> > in the latest kernels working with my ipw3945 NIC.
> >
> > 'iwlist eth0 scan' appears to work properly, but NetworkManager
> > refuses to associate.
> >
> > I recall in a previous thread that NM needed some patches to make this
> > work. Has that happened?
> >
> > Fails to associate with open (thanks Google!), WEP or WPA networks.
> >
> > Get these messages during boot:
> >
> > wmaster0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) ; SET failed
> > on device wmaster0 : Operation not supported
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not supported
> >
> > I've killed NM and tried to associate manually, but haven't been successful.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> I got it to work once when I:
>
> - found an open network (no key)
> - set the ap manually
> - set the freq manually
> - set the essid manually
> - ran dhclient
>
> This only worked once. The rest of the times, it didn't work.
Hm. Someone please remind me why we're shipping non-functional software, again?
And why a patch to make plain old ifup/ifdown scripts to work with wpa_supplicant
has been ignored for months[1] or even years[2]?
Attaching a cleaned-up patch from [1] (without cosmetics). Still (!) applies
cleanly against FC6's initscripts.
Regards,
R.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg00503.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154348
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810
--- ifup-wireless.orig 2005-09-30 20:51:15.000000000 +0200
+++ ifup-wireless 2006-04-07 16:09:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,35 @@
# Only meant to be called from ifup.
+if wpa_cli -i $DEVICE status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ eval $(wpa_cli -i${DEVICE} status | grep wpa_state 2>/dev/null)
+ if [ "$wpa_state" != "COMPLETED" ]; then
+ /sbin/ip link set $DEVICE down
+ /sbin/ip link set $DEVICE up
+ wpa_cli scan >/dev/null 2>&1
+ fi
+ old_state=""
+ cnt=0
+ while true; do
+ eval $(wpa_cli -i${DEVICE} status | grep wpa_state 2>/dev/null)
+ if [ "$wpa_state" = "COMPLETED" ]; then
+ echo $"Connected to $ssid"
+ break
+ fi
+ if [ "$old_state" != "$wpa_state" ]; then
+ echo -n "$wpa_state "
+ old_state=$wpa_state
+ fi
+
+ sleep 1
+ cnt=$[$cnt + 1]
+ if [ $cnt -gt 60 ]; then
+ echo -n $"Timeout "
+ exit 10
+ fi
+ done
+else
+
# Mode need to be first : some settings apply only in a specific mode !
if [ -n "$MODE" ] ; then
iwconfig $DEVICE mode $MODE
@@ -97,3 +126,5 @@
# use any essid
iwconfig $DEVICE essid any >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
+
+fi
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