[gentoo-user] wireless wierd behaviour

[gentoo-user] wireless wierd behaviour

[Fernando Meira]

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Hi,

I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.
The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys
WPC54G.
I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think
the problem is not from that. I did use my card with this new driver
successfully before.
The problem arises at the authentication stage.
Somehow, I can't associate or authenticate with the damn router.
Although stupid, I've tried with encryption enable/disable, DHCP server
enable/disable and many other things that I can change in the router setup.
Nothing seems to work. I could almost say I've tried everything.
With a ether cable, works fine!
And there is other laptop (running windows) connected via wireless to the
router without any problem.

The following is what shows up in dmesg:

SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but did not
request authentication.
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but did not
request authentication.
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but did not
request authentication.
SoftMAC: Authentication timed out with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
printk: 4 messages suppressed.
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
printk: 5 messages suppressed.
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_REASSOC_REQ received
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:xx:xx:xx but no
queue item exists.

note: I changed the real MAC address with the "xx" one.

Does anyone know what can be wrong?
Or what can I try to do?

Thanks,
Fernando

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Re: [gentoo-user] wireless wierd behaviour

[Javier]

Hi Fernando,

with this driver the first step is doing a "ifconfig ethX up" before
any wireless related configuration.

Example:
ifconfig ethX up
iwconfig ethX channel Y
iwconfig ethX essid any

And after this steps you have to be associated and you can set your
ip-related settings.

Did you do by this way?

Regards,
Javi
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Re: [gentoo-user] wireless wierd behaviour

[Fernando Meira]

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On 7/14/06, Javier <javism@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fernando,
>
> with this driver the first step is doing a "ifconfig ethX up" before
> any wireless related configuration.
>
> Example:
> ifconfig ethX up
> iwconfig ethX channel Y
> iwconfig ethX essid any
>
> And after this steps you have to be associated and you can set your
> ip-related settings.
>
> Did you do by this way?
>
> Regards,
> Javi
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



Hi,

yes, I am aware of that proceeding.
I do everything smoothly.. sometimes I can get connected, most of the times
I can't.
As Daniel pointed out in other reply, this must be a bug in the module.. at
least, that's the problem with the driver that is shipped with kernel 2.6.17.
Since I use kernel 2.6.16, I had to install the driver independently, thus
I'm using the latest masked version of ieee80211softmac. Version 0*
.1-r20060329* to be correct.

Besides going back to ndiswrapper, what other choices do I have here?
Thanks,
Fernando

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