From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyN2K-0000JL-6R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:54:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 521D0E081E; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C061AE081E for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.32.6] (d58-107-77-56.rdl7.qld.optusnet.com.au [58.107.77.56]) (authenticated sender johnmoe) by mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n9F9sDe6023904 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:54:14 +1100 Message-ID: <4AD6F141.3000906@optushome.com.au> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:54:09 +1000 From: John Moe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091014 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel iwl3945 problem References: <4AD6E7EB.3020205@optushome.com.au> <3ac129340910150246t44ec384cn16c21063fecc6500@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ac129340910150246t44ec384cn16c21063fecc6500@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 375e3fee-024e-4acd-87f8-e42582f59cb7 X-Archives-Hash: 40c7887262d8d440cf421f1fd6aa678a daid kahl wrote: >> I've recently rebuilt my laptop, and am having trouble getting the >> wireless to work correctly. My wireless is making an association with >> my AP, but TCP/IP traffic doesn't seem to want to transmit over it; I >> can't even ping my AP. TCP/IP works fine on the ethernet adapter. >> Wireshark (without the ethernet connected) only shows traffic going out >> the wireless card, not in, and another station on my home network is not >> seeing the DHCP broadcasts. My access point can see the MAC address of >> the wireless card in my laptop. I've tried to config the networking >> with DHCP and static IPs, neither worked. >> >> So, the wireless card appears to be working, and TCP/IP appears to be >> working, but not together. Does anyone have any idea what could cause >> this? I've previously had it working, however, I forgot to grab my >> kernel config before I wiped the drive, only the /etc folder and my home >> folder, so there's a good chance that I've done something differently in >> the kernel config. >> > > Use portage to rebuild all the relevant network ebuilds. I've had > similar trouble with NetworkManager and my wireless after rebuilding > lots of the system, and once I rebuilt NetworkManager then everything > was back to normal. So, dhcpcd certainly should be rebuilt, and > whatever other things might be related to the wireless in portage. > > ~daid > > > Well, I've used emerge -C and then emerge again on dhcpcd and iwl3945-ucode. I'm not sure if I did that with wireless-tools, but I'll try that now. Actually, I'll unmerge all three and re-emerge them again. Are there any others that I'm missing? I can't think of any other packages that would apply; at least, not that I specified. John Moe