On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Giacomo Comes <comes@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 04:10:30PM +0000, Dave Kilroy wrote: >> >> Just had a closer look at your log. wpa_supplicant is clearing keys 4 >> and 5, which is why you're getting invalid arguments reported. This >> shouldn't affect driver behaviour. >> >> After that, something seems to go wrong with scanning. Try a plain >> scan with wpa_supplicant turned off. Do you get any results? > > After a reboot and without configuring the wireless interface, > iw dev eth1 scan > gives: > command failed: Network is down (-100) The interface need to be up to scan: ifconfig eth1 up > I was trying to associate the wireless card using iwconfig: > iwconfig eth1 mode managed key <key> > iwconfig eth1 essid <essid> > but the card does not associate with the AP. > Isn't that supposed to work or am I missing something? Was that AP using WEP or WPA? The former should work (with the interface up, and all the parameters being set correctly). The latter won't. > Buy the way, if I configure the wireless interface with yast > using WEP (the only way I can make the truemobile > card work) then iw dev eth1 scan gives: > BSS 00:13:10:aa:89:4b (on eth1) > TSF: 12179691 usec (0d, 00:00:12) > freq: 2437 > beacon interval: 100 > capability: ESS Privacy PBCC ShortSlotTime (0x0451) > signal: -27.00 dBm > last seen: 48 ms ago > SSID: ssid2 > Supported rates: 1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 22.0 > DS Parameter set: channel 6 > ERP: Barker_Preamble_Mode > Extended supported rates: 6.0 9.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0 > WPA: * Version: 1 > * Group cipher: TKIP > * Pairwise ciphers: TKIP > * Authentication suites: PSK That's what I wanted to see. So the card is able to scan, but your wpa_supplicant log indicates it is continuously timing out the scans. I don't know what is going on there. What you can try is to turn off wpa_supplicant roaming, and force wpa_supplicant to connect to the AP with highest priority in your config. Set ap_scan=2 in wpa_supplicant.conf, and set group=TKIP pairwise=TKIP in the network block. This also prevents wpa_supplicant trying to connect to an AP using BSSID, which the agere cards don't support. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
