On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:48:12AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 07:22 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> I haven't been able to get the 'new and cool' iwlwifi driver included
> in the latest kernels working with my ipw3945 NIC.
>
> 'iwlist eth0 scan' appears to work properly, but NetworkManager
> refuses to associate.
>
> I recall in a previous thread that NM needed some patches to make this
> work. Has that happened?
>
> Fails to associate with open (thanks Google!), WEP or WPA networks.
>
> Get these messages during boot:
>
> wmaster0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) ; SET failed
> on device wmaster0 : Operation not supported
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not supported
>
> I've killed NM and tried to associate manually, but haven't been
successful.
>
> Any hints?
I got it to work once when I:
- found an open network (no key)
- set the ap manually
- set the freq manually
- set the essid manually
- ran dhclient
This only worked once. The rest of the times, it didn't work.
Hm. Someone please remind me why we're shipping non-functional software, again?
And why a patch to make plain old ifup/ifdown scripts to work with wpa_supplicant
has been ignored for months[1] or even years[2]?
Attaching a cleaned-up patch from [1] (without cosmetics). Still (!) applies
cleanly against FC6's initscripts.
Regards,
R.
[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg00503.html
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154348
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