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Clueless

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Registered: 2011-08-17

Posts: 16

netcfg - Cannot connect to WIFI on my ThinkPad T43

I have a thinkpad T43 (at least I think that's what it is, it doesn't really say anywhere on the body) with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless card in it.

When I set up a netcfg profile as follows I can't connect:

CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE='eth1'
SECURITY='wep'
ESSID='UVEE2'
KEY='...'
IP='dhcp'

I get the following error if I do "netcfg -u main"

nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands

Connecting manually works fine. Kernel driver and module as reported by lspci -k are ipw2200. Any tips?

davidgurvich

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Registered: 2010-02-11

Posts: 118

Re: netcfg - Cannot connect to WIFI on my ThinkPad T43

Is there a specific reason you don't want to use networkmanager or wicd?  I tried netcfg a while back and had problems with it also.  I've avoided it since wicd works well enough and networkmanager has improved a lot.

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: netcfg - Cannot connect to WIFI on my ThinkPad T43

It seems likely that your Intel wifi chip needs firmware.  Did you check the wiki for that kind of thing?  And fwiw, I'm not a fan of networkmanager but I do see its appeal.