[gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

["José Pedro Saraiva" <nocive@gmail.com>]

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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? :/


dmesg output:

ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
ipw3945: request scan called when driver not ready.
ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels)
ipw3945: Error sending SCAN_ABORT_CMD: time out after 500ms.
ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels)

Some extra info:
I'm using the internal ieee8021x stack with gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5

*  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

*  net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
      Latest version available: 0.5.7
      Latest version installed: 0.5.7


# lspci | grep "Wireless"
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
Connection (rev 02)

# pcitweak -l 2>&1 | grep "03.00.0:"
PCI: 03:00:0: chip 8086,4222 card 8086,1041 rev 02 class 02,80,00 hdr 00

# iwconfig eth1
eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.462 GHz  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:179   Missed beacon:0


/etc/conf.d/net extract:

modules_eth1=( "!plug" "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext"
associate_timeout_eth1="60"


/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf extract (the problem isn't here
though, it fails with all types of configurations):

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
update_config=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=0
fast_reauth=1

network={
        ssid="XXXXXXXXXX"
        priority=1
        key_mgmt=NONE
        auth_alg=SHARED
        wep_key0="XXXXXXX"
        wep_tx_keyidx=0
}



Sorry for the length.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
.

Best regards,

José Pedro

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