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elyron

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 2

wireless network

yes, i'm quite new to linux, but everything finally seems to work

except for this one little thing: my wireless (only thing that worked better on ubuntu than arch)

i've installed the ipw3945 drivers, because, yes i have an intel 3945abg network card

everything seemed fine, i have the blue led-indicator burning saying that wireless is up, i can even see my own wireless network via wifi-radar

there's only one thing: i dont seem to get an ip-adress from my router via wlan.

theres this little error i get when i run wifi-radar via the terminal:

Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
    SET failed on device eth2 ; Invalid argument.

my rc.conf looks like this:

MODULES=(agpgart intel-agp fuse ipw3945 r8169)

eth2="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 eth2)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng ifplugd ipw3945d network portmap fam dbus hal netfs crond acpid laptop-mode @alsa wifi-radar gdm)

and my /etc/conf.d/wireless:

wlan_eth2="eth2 essid RTA300BUW-84F01F key xxxxxxxx"

when i run wifi-radar i get an error message that i couldnt get an ip-adress, and with "dhcpcd eth2" it just takes a while, but theres still no ip in ifconfig eth2

Stalwart

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From: Latvia, Riga

Registered: 2005-10-18

Posts: 445

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Re: wireless network

Last time i tried wifi-radar (is was july 2006) it was horribly broken. Try networkmanager or just write shellscript to configure wifi.

P.S. I use patched wpa_supplicant + some shell scripts

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tim

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 98

Re: wireless network

I had this same problem before. Turns out that firewire (ieee1394) sometimes confuses things and can be detected as a network card and so assigned to be ethX device. So what was happening was arch thought the firewire was a wireless card and gave me the same error you are getting. So if you do have ieee1394 then see this link:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=18768

I know there is a proper how to on this somewhere in the howtos, probably related to wireless card configuration.

Hope this helps

tim