Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:53:52PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked:
> I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly
> gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great
> success.  I have never had any wireless problems, using the ipw2200
> centrino.  I've not changed kernels for a long while, still running
> 2.5.15 something.  Never a hiccough.

Upgrading your kernel might be a good idea. 

> Then, after installing ubuntu, accessing a few access points, suddenly
> the module for ipw2200 won't install consistently, and I get an error,
> the most recent error was "-1" but there was another number earlier.

I take it that you are trying to install the net-wireless/ipw2200
package? (since it does not come built into the kernel until somewhere
around 2.6.8)

> Well, at school today, confounding all this, the wireless access
> points have now been set up with WPA keys.  Trying WEP keys with
> Ubuntu was unsuccessful, after failling w/ gentoo altogether.  Then
> when trying to run "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start" again, as I've been
> doing, there is no happiness, and I tracked down this failure to load
> the module.  After a couple of tried, the module did, I think load,
> but because of the WPA setup, I cannot figure out how to access the
> net.  Back to ubuntu, back to gentoo---again module problems.  These
> are firmware problems, failture to load firmware, not the ipw2200
> module, sorry.

Which versions of firmware/ipw2200/kernel are you running here
exactly? 

> Ubuntu too, I cannot figure out how to use the WPA key.

We should tackle one thing at a time. But have you looked at 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup

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