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pfoo

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Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 3

wifi ipw3945 issue

Hi,
I've hot a problem with my wifi card on my asus A6JC

After boot, I type "dmesg"

ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels)

iwconfig:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=nan kHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm   
          Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:294   Missed beacon:0

My access point is detected by iwlist eth2 scan:

          Cell 01 - Address: 00:06:25:49:C3:73
                    ESSID:"<hidden>"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality=90/100  Signal level=-42 dBm  Noise level=-42 dBm
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Extra: Last beacon: 7396ms ago

Here is my wpa_supplicant configuration (made with wpa_gui)

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="reloaded"
        psk="weareinthenetwork"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP
}

But, when i launch wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth2 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, i have this in dmesg

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready

And if I use wpa_gui :

ioctl[SIOCGIFADDR]: Cannot assign requested address
ioctl[SIOCGIFADDR]: Cannot assign requested address
ioctl[SIOCGIFADDR]: Cannot assign requested address
ioctl[SIOCGIFADDR]: Cannot assign requested address
ioctl[SIOCGIFADDR]: Cannot assign requested address

Any idea ?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: wifi ipw3945 issue

Issue 'ifconfig eth2 up' beforehand.

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pfoo

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Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 3

Re: wifi ipw3945 issue

Already done ...
and still the same errors :
"ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready"  when I launch wpa_supplicant
and
"ioctl[SIOCGIFADDR]: Cannot assign requested address"  when I launch wpa_gui

shen

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Registered: 2003-09-05

Posts: 272

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Re: wifi ipw3945 issue

Have your tried assigning the essid manually using iwconfig yet? Might turn off the encryption temporarily on the access point to test to make sure you can connect without it. Might be worth it just to test it.

I am not familiar with wpa supplicant at all and have no plans to use it.

pfoo

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Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 3

Re: wifi ipw3945 issue

I downloaded wifi-radar, and it i'm able to connect with it ...
So I think there is a problem in my way of using wpa_supplicant... I will check later

[EDIT]
You got it shen
I must assign essid manually, using iwconfig.
Thanks a lot

Last edited by pfoo (2007-04-24 07:58:48)