Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

["Brian Johnson" <brian@dogtoe.com>]

Actually, Will you are a bit wrong. Restarting the ipw3945d service yields
the same results. Here's what happens when I restart the ipw3945 service:

# /etc/init.d/ipw3945d restart
 * Stopping eth1
 *   Bringing down eth1
 *     Stopping dhcpcd on eth1 ...                                       
[ ok ]
 *     Shutting down eth1 ...                                            
[ ok ]
 *     Stopping wpa_cli on eth1 ...                                      
[ ok ]
 *     Stopping wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...                               
[ ok ]
 * Stopping ipw3945d ...                                                 
[ ok ]
 * Starting ipw3945d ...                                                 
[ ok ]
 * Starting eth1
 *   Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable
WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource
temporarily unavailable
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily
unavailable                                                               
               [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 -
 *   Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ...                                        
[ ok ]
 *     Backgrounding ...

Which is basically the same problem as what José posted about, except he
is restarting net.eth1.

Anyone know of a solution to fix this? (Aside from getting a different
wireless NIC)

*  net-wireless/ipw3945
      Latest version available: 1.2.0
      Latest version installed: 1.2.0

*  net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode
      Latest version available: 1.14.2
      Latest version installed: 1.14.2

*  net-wireless/ipw3945d
      Latest version available: 1.7.22-r4
      Latest version installed: 1.7.22-r4

- Brian

On Thu, April 26, 2007 8:35 pm, Will Briggs wrote:
> � wrote: Hi all!
>
>
> I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> wireless adapter. I've managed to get it working with normal WEP
> authentication, but no success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it
> for WPA auth).
>
> # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart
> * Stopping eth1
> *   Bringing down eth1
> *     Stopping dhcpcd on eth1
> ...
>                                                                    [ ok ]
>  *     Shutting down eth1
> ...
>                                                                         [
> ok ] *     Stopping wpa_cli on eth1
> ...
>                                                                   [ ok ]
> *     Stopping wpa_supplicant on eth1
> ...
>                                                            [ ok ]
> * Starting eth1
> *   Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...
> ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Could not configure driver to use managed mode
> ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable
> WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource
> temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily
> unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable
> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily
> unavailable
>                                   [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 -
> *   Starting wpa_cli on eth1
> ...
>                                                                     [ ok
> ]
> *     Failed to configure eth1 in the background
>
>
>
> Ugly, uh? :/
> Yeah
>
>
> A number of things, some of which you may know:
>
>
> 1) Don't add net.eth1 to runlevel.  The ipw3945 module loading
> (/etc/modprobe.conf) runs ipw3945d init script which brings up net.eth1
> which is managed by wpa_supplicant.  If you try and manage net.eth1
> yourself (with rc-update, or with something like ifplugd then things will
> get confused).  I do have netplug configed for eth* but I think it knows
> how to get out of the way of wpa_supplicant.
>
> All you need to do is emerge ipw3945 - no rc-updating needed.
>
>
> 2) If you ever need to restart net.eth1, restart ipw3945d instead.
>
>
> 3) My wpa_supplicant.conf just as comparision:
>
>
> # Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 :: wpa_supplicant.conf
>
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant # DO NOT remove this line!
> ctrl_interface_group=0 # Only allow root to read config. ap_scan=1 #
> Allows wpa_supplicant to handle AP scanning.
>
>
> # The following configures wpa_supplicant for a WPA
> network={     ssid="foo"
>     scan_ssid=1 # Use if SSID broadcast is disabled.
>     psk="bar" # Your key here.
> }
>
>
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