iwlwifi 3945 (Dell Vostro 1400) dhcpcd times out strangely

kamatsu · 2008-11-20 05:14:41

Hi all,

I was able to get arch to install using the old ipw3945 drivers that were on the disk, but now that it's installed I am trying to get the superior iwlwifi drivers to work, partly because I can't seem to find packages for the old drivers.

Okay, so I have the firmware installed and the firmware hook in my initcpio, and it loads the module and detects the card fine on startup.

I have a simple non-encrypted (no WEP or WPA) access point for testing purposes.

So, it should be trivial right? iwlist wlan0 scan works fine, I get my access point showing up there, so I just go ahead with:

iwconfig wlan0 essid MY_ESSID
ifconfig wlan0 inet up
dhcpcd wlan0

Seems to go well, except for the dhcpcd line, where I get:

wlan0: dhcpcd 4.0.3 starting
wlan0: waiting for carrier
wlan0: timed out

I have never encountered this problem before. Any ideas?

Edit: dmesg output all looks okay (no obvious errors)

Edit: It seems to work if i rmmod/modprobe iwl3945.. but that is not really ideal. Any ideas?

Last edited by kamatsu (2008-11-20 05:29:55)

viga · 2008-11-20 05:45:22

ifconfig wlan0 up

first

kamatsu · 2008-11-20 07:50:39

viga wrote:

ifconfig wlan0 up
first

1) I already did that, see my first post.
2) Makes no difference if i leave the inet keyword out.

Edit: Adding/removing the module now appears to make no difference.

Edit: I switched to wicd and it seems to be fine now.. will post back if i get any problems.

Last edited by kamatsu (2008-11-20 07:58:52)

serrghi · 2008-11-21 13:58:38

Try this!
simple bash script which should solve your problem.

SiC · 2008-11-21 18:07:28

Also try using netcfg2, I use it on my iwl3945 laptop very successfully. It's great as I have 5 different networks I use regularly.

3lusive · 2008-12-17 05:30:27

I noticed mine works fine, however in WEP mode (I run an open network at home thats mac filtered)..... I noticed it was not working... I discovered if I put in sleep statements like shown below it works... 1 second sleep for some reason works (sleep 2 doesn't)

###
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
sleep 1
iwconfig wlan0 essid "BobsWiFi"
sleep 1
iwconfig wlan0 key f70dcc3L173
sleep 1
iwconfig wlan0 channel auto
###

sleep 1

Last edited by 3lusive (2008-12-17 05:31:01)

ms.fellag · 2009-04-22 19:03:39

kamatsu : if you found any thing can you help me with this ?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68253

mar77i · 2009-07-05 21:39:01

If the problem was dhcpcd related, you'd just have to read the dhcpcd man page.

This is what I have in my /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd:

DHCPCD_ARGS="-bq -t 60 -C resolv.conf"

If it still won't work with a 60 sec timeout, you'll be looking for another problem...

Last edited by mar77i (2009-07-05 21:49:41)

broch · 2009-07-06 13:07:03

for me iwl3945 fails with dhcpcd timeouts (WPA2) with anything above dhcpcd 3.2.1-1
so I am stuck with this version, but i don't think that later dhcpcd versions are introducing some sort of breakthrough.

dhcpcd 3.2.1-1 works fine so maybe try this one

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iwlwifi 3945 (Dell Vostro 1400) dhcpcd times out strangely

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