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#1 2009-02-04 23:09:33

BR
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ipw2200

Hi. I'm attempting to get wireless connection going with ipw2200. I've installed ipw2200-fw and have attempted the wireless setup in the beginners guide with no success.

After typing in "iwconfig" i get an unassociated wireless extension on eth1.
Using "iwlist eth1 scan", it can see the router.
I perform "iwconfig eth1 essid "BigPond3352" key ..." and works ok
Finally when I perform "dhcpcd eth1" I get:

err, eth1: timed out
warn, eth1: using IPV4LL address 169.254.62.125

I attempt "dhcpcd eth1" again:

err, eth1: dhcpcd already running on pid 3158 (/var/run/dhcpcd-eth1.pid)

And when I ping google i get unknown host.

So any ideas?

Also note that eth0 is used for my wired network connection (which works through the same router).

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#2 2009-02-04 23:58:41

koch
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Re: ipw2200

had the same problem, changed to wext driver and wicd and magically it all worked.

edit: thinkpad?

Last edited by koch (2009-02-04 23:59:14)

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#3 2009-02-05 01:16:47

BR
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Re: ipw2200

I think my network authentication requires WPA-PSK and Encrption requires TKIP.  I don't think the above is the way for me to be going about this.

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#4 2009-02-05 01:43:36

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Re: ipw2200

If you need wpa, then just iwconfig won't do it. You would need wpa_supplicant too. (and maby a wrapper for ease of use smile)


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#5 2009-02-05 01:47:13

koch
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Re: ipw2200

as i said i had exactly the same problem with exactly the same error.
eth0 (cable)and eth1 (wireless) were up and running but no ping to google or any other link.  it didn't work whatever i tried (reading the german and the english wiki, configuring stuff like wpa-supplicant and more). networkmanager did not work. nothing got me into the internet, grrr. the only two things i did not was to try ndiswrapper with windows driver and wicd.
after a few days i decided to start again and this time i started with wicd, installed it and it worked out of the box. since then i had no problems with wireless or wired.
i also need wpa-psk and tkid, using a fritzbox 7270 as router for my desktop box and the notebook.
oh, the laptop is an about 3 year old ibm thinkpad t42.
i think in the wiki it says if you have something that requires ipw2200 then use the appropriate driver, ipw2200, but this is, sorry for my bad english, not the driver that is actually needed here. i needed the wext driver but this nowhere mentioned in the wiki as far as i can see. perhaps i did not see the relevant part but i do not think so.
all intel pro wireless adapters use the wext driver since kernel 2.6.14 if you want to configure wpa-supplicant or similar stuff. actually it not really a driver but a part of wpa-supplicant as far as i understood in my short search about it.

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#6 2009-02-05 02:56:24

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Re: ipw2200

BR wrote:

I think my network authentication requires WPA-PSK and Encrption requires TKIP.  I don't think the above is the way for me to be going about this.

Yes, looks like you are trying to associate with a WPA network, using a WEP method, like you and Mr. Elendig have indicated. Search the wiki for wpa_supplicant..you may want to educate yourself on that, though koch brings up an interesting point about wicd working seamlessly.

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#7 2009-02-05 02:59:55

kandrews
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Re: ipw2200

BR wrote:

Hi. I'm attempting to get wireless connection going with ipw2200. I've installed ipw2200-fw and have attempted the wireless setup in the beginners guide with no success.

After typing in "iwconfig" i get an unassociated wireless extension on eth1.
Using "iwlist eth1 scan", it can see the router.
I perform "iwconfig eth1 essid "BigPond3352" key ..." and works ok
Finally when I perform "dhcpcd eth1" I get:

err, eth1: timed out
warn, eth1: using IPV4LL address 169.254.62.125

I attempt "dhcpcd eth1" again:

err, eth1: dhcpcd already running on pid 3158 (/var/run/dhcpcd-eth1.pid)

And when I ping google i get unknown host.

So any ideas?

Also note that eth0 is used for my wired network connection (which works through the same router).

Hi! I've got an ipw2200 wireless card as well. Don't worry about the "err, eth1: dhcpcd...". Just 'pkill dhcpcd'  and try again.

Have you tried setting up netcfg2 with all the required settings? pacman -Sy netcfg . Below is what my wifi config file looks like. Stick it into a textfile in /etc/network.d and then run netcfg <textfile name> (I called mine apt, so I type netcfg apt to connect). Make sure it matches your desired settings. I specified a longer time out in mine because I have gotten time outs from time to time.

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=eth1
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="BigPond3352"
KEY="<yourkey>"
IP="dhcp"
DHCLIENT=no
TIMEOUT=20
DHCP_TIMEOUT=30

Good Luck!

edit: err, Misfit138 and Mr. Elendig both know what they are talking about. WPA works fine with netcfg for me, but I don't know if it supports TKIP.

Last edited by kandrews (2009-02-05 03:06:49)

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#8 2009-02-05 03:21:03

koch
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Re: ipw2200

@mr.elendig:yes, it really does.

i knew nothing about wireless lan and encryption when i started to configure my new notebook because i never needed it here for my desktop. then i bought a used t42.
i had a lot of work in these days so it all had to happen fast and i have to read all the pages again in a few days because i wanna know where my error was.
but what i know is that i always tried to configure wpa and it did not work. i saw the router as BR does, i did the same iwconfig-stuff, everything seemed to be ok but no ping worked.
i also tried it with the wext driver but i think in (or is it "with"?) my first attempt i made a mistake somewhere so i did not work too. nothing worked, no wpa_supplicant, no wlassistant, no wifi-radar or anything in console.
2 days later i just did a pacman -S wicd, started it, clicked on my network which was found without any problems as before , it found an ip and hello world, i had a working internet connection. smile

Last edited by koch (2009-02-05 03:22:43)

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#9 2009-02-05 04:48:03

BR
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Re: ipw2200

I've gone kandrews method for the moment. I made the profile and ran it with netcfg. Seemed to work but pinging google doesn't seem to work. I'll be trying these 'workarounds' in the mean time, but I got no idea what I'm doing.

Edit: Sorry, it's all working now, it just needed a reboot. So how can I add this as a daemon?

Last edited by BR (2009-02-05 04:59:42)

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#10 2009-02-05 05:03:28

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Re: ipw2200

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Net … ng_on_boot

The Arch Wki page link above describes how to connect on boot with netcfg (if you choose to).

I'm glad you got your wireless working.

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#11 2009-02-05 05:32:28

BR
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Re: ipw2200

Yeah I looked at that beforehand. I've decided to do this in one go and attempt an auto detection of the either the wired and wireless connections.

I've modified the network and daemon part of the rc.conf file to look like this:

HOSTNAME="BRLT"
AUTO_NETWORKS=(home_wireless eth1 home_wired eth0)
DAEMONS=( ... network home_wireless home_wired ...)

I've also commented out the rest of the network settings, like ' ech0="dhcp" '.

At the moment I had to copy the profiles into the /etc/rc.d/ folder because that's where it's looking for the profiles. However I get a permission denied for both profiles on boot.

Edit: /etc/rc.d/functions: line 158: /etc/rc.d/home_wireless: Permission Denied

Last edited by BR (2009-02-05 05:53:02)

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#12 2009-02-05 06:26:14

BR
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Re: ipw2200

I've got it to work via this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58785.

AUTO_NETWORKS=(auto-wireless eth1)
DAEMONS=(... net-auto ...)

This will do for the moment, thanks for all your help.

I eventually would like to have a procedure where a check for a wired connection is made first, and if wired connection exists then ignore the wireless connection. If no wired connection is present then look and connect to a wireless connection.

I guess my next question is whether a package can do the above. And if not how hard could it be to build one?

Last edited by BR (2009-02-05 07:04:21)

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