Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi & psk auth

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Monday 10 March 2008 20:33:32 Jan Seeger wrote:

> Yes, with 2.6.24, iwlwifi is not required anymore.

In fact you can't emerge it at all with kernel 2.6.24.

> Here's my wpa_supplicant.conf and my /etc/conf.d/net

Heartfelt thanks from me! Your config has got my wifi working; now I'll have 
to find out what difference in particular between yours and mine caused it 
to spring into life.

> network={
>     ssid="WLAN1"
>     psk="<key>"
>     pairwise=TKIP
>     group=TKIP
>     priority=5
> }
[...]
> /etc/conf.d/net:
>
> modules=("wpa_supplicant")
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" # This you need

I thought wext was the default device, no?

> #Network configuration
> config_WLAN1=( "192.168.178.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 
192.168.178.255" )
> routes_WLAN1=( "default via 192.168.178.1" )
> dns_servers_WLAN1=( "192.168.178.1" )
> gateways_WLAN1=( "192.168.178.1" )

The key difference here is that you've defined variables for the SSID of the 
network link, where I would have used (was using) the interface to which 
that link is attached. /etc/conf.d/*.example don't make this clear at all.

> Also, I have a handy little script which ... stops the net.wlan0
> initscript, unloads the iwl module and reloads the module. The initscript
> automatically restarts.  

It doesn't restart automatically here.

I submitted a bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212383. 
The silence is deafening  :-)

-- 
Rgds
Peter
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