On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:32:16PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > Now that 2.6.17-rc5 is out I gave it a test run. > > Unfortunately the wireless driver bcm43xx does not work, > > it not been working with -rc3 either. > > > > Using the patches (softmac and all this) against 2.6.15.4 > > I got it to work a few times, and now I hoped that the integration into > > the kernel would have made stuff better, but it didn't. > > > > Any hints appreciated. > What worked for me is "associating with the access point manually", > i.e., ifconfig the interface, do dhcp (you won't get an address) > then: > - iwlist scan > - iwconfig <wireless-interface> ap <mac-of-ap> Thanks for the hint, I have just tried, but it did not help me. > It seems there's something broken with the ap selection code, but I > didn't get around to figure out what exactly. I have several aps in range and setting an essid usually is enough to have iwconfig show the right one. Also I have tried a new kernel configuration. ?<*> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack ? ?[*] Enable full debugging output interesting enough I had to compile the above in (_not_ a module) to make it possible to enable the WEP support as a module. ? ?<M> IEEE 802.11 WEP encryption (802.1x) ? ?<M> IEEE 802.11i CCMP support ? ?<M> IEEE 802.11i TKIP encryption ? ?<M> Software MAC add-on to the IEEE 802.11 networking stack ? ?[*] Enable full debugging output May 28 11:06:10 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 May 28 11:06:10 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels May 28 11:06:10 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready May 28 11:06:11 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished May 28 11:06:11 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:23:45:67:89:ab May 28 11:06:11 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication May 28 11:06:11 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:23:45:67:89:ab. May 28 11:06:14 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Can't perform deauthentication, network is not authenticated. May 28 11:06:14 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:13:ce:9f:f8:af but no queue item exists. May 28 11:06:14 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received May 28 11:06:18 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication May 28 11:06:18 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication May 28 11:06:22 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:13:ce:9f:f8:af but no queue item exists. May 28 11:06:22 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received May 28 11:06:23 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:23:45:67:89:ab. May 28 11:06:30 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:13:ce:9f:f8:af but no queue item exists. May 28 11:06:30 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received May 28 11:06:35 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:23:45:67:89:ab. May 28 11:06:38 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:13:ce:9f:f8:af but no queue item exists. May 28 11:06:38 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received May 28 11:06:46 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:13:ce:9f:f8:af but no queue item exists.
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