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musasabi

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2011-06-23

Posts: 63

iwl1000 series card not working

I'm a long-time Gentoo enthusiast who recently got exposed to Arch and I am impressed thus far. I actually installed Arch on my laptop simply as a last-ditch attempt to get my wireless back up and running after it crapped out with a recent Gentoo install. So far, though, no dice. The installation was a breeze and I'm happy to have Gnome3 up and running so quickly, but this wifi bit is killing me.

[root@laptop patrick]# lspci | grep Network
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000

...

[root@laptop patrick]# pacman -Q linux-firmware
linux-firmware 20110512-2

...

[root@laptop patrick]# ifconfig
...
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:64:49:3E:B4  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:565 (565.0 b)  TX bytes:463 (463.0 b)

...

[root@laptop patrick]# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf 
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
    ssid="anglednet"
    proto=RSN
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    pairwise=CCMP TKIP
    group=CCMP TKIP
    psk=(...)
}

All of that seems good to me. Yet, when I click on the convenient network manager in Gnome3's applet tray, I can see the networks I want (and wlist wlan0 scan lists what I expect), but when I click on it (and expect a prompt for a key), I get nothing. Correspondingly, when I run wpa_supplicant on it's own, I get this:

[root@laptop patrick]# wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf 
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
WPA: No SSID info found (msg 1 of 4).
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
Failed to initiate AP scan.
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
Failed to initiate AP scan.
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
Trying to associate with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 (SSID='anglednet' freq=2437 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:f8:5f:ee:06
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:18:f8:5f:ee:06 reason=0
^CCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received

...ad infinitum.

Any help? =\

musasabi

Member

From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2011-06-23

Posts: 63

Re: iwl1000 series card not working

Well, I added console kit to my xinitrc and now I can get on my wifi connection just fine via Gnome.

But why on Earth doesn't any of this work as root via terminal like it should?