Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18
Hi,
its good that after complaining i found the issue myself. It's now
working without a flaw.
If anybody is interestet:
The openwrt uses "shared key" authentication by default, which
is more insecure than "open" authentication. I don't know why
openwrt hast this default then.
Changing the authentication method could be done by setting an nvram
variable:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration#head-f0ebbaed59da8d1170fa7a7684fde5ad1b9e11eb
Still bad that if you stay at peoples homes that use shared
authentication softmac does not seem to work as it does not support
it:
http://www.tgunkel.de/it/hardware/doc/ibook_g4_linux.en
http://www.mail-archive.com/zd1211-devs@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01042.html
As i cannot ask everybody where i use the wlan to change the settings.
Still i am somewhat happy now. Probably it helps others. Error code 13
in softmac means unsupported algorithm.
Thanks,
Joerg
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:14:16PM +0200, jmaier.shove-it.de wrote:
> He,
>
> sorry forgot my kernel/hardware description:
>
> % uname -a
> Linux powerbook 2.6.20.7jcm #1 Sun Apr 22 14:40:21 CEST 2007 ppc GNU/Linux
>
> % lspvi -vv #(only the broadcom part)
> 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
> Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. AirPort Extreme
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 16
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 52
> Region 0: Memory at 80084000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
>
>
>
> Cheers and a nice weekend.
>
> BTW: I would love so much to have wlan running here and not use the 20m cable to be able to sit online in the kitchen and in the living room.
>
> Joerg
>
> On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:46:37 +0200, jmaier.shove-it.de <joerg.maier@shove-it.de> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i am still having trouble with bcm43xx. Had some usb wlan stick running.
> > Unfortunately gave it away as i had bcm43xx running the first time with
> > another access point. Since i have my own asus wl500gp router with its own
> > openwrt linux running on it i cannot connect with bcm43xx while i can with
> > macos.
> >
> > I tried like
> >
> > % ifconfig eth2 up
> > % iwconfig eth2 essid <essid> key <key> rate 11M
> > % dhclient eth2
> >
> > I switched on debugging in softmac and bcm43xx and dmesg shows sth like:
> >
> > bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xf5, pl 0xcc (2004-01-21 19:04:18)
> > bcm43xx: Radio turned on
> > bcm43xx: Chip initialized
> > bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized
> > bcm43xx: Keys cleared
> > bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
> > PM: Adding info for No Bus:hw_random
> > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
> > SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> > SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
> > bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
> > SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> > SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> > SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> > SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> > SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> > SoftMAC: Unable to find matching network after scan!
> > SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> > bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1,
> > .encrypt = 1
> > SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> > SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54
> > SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
> > authentication
> > SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54.
> > SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:17:31:bf:73:54 failed, error code: 13
> >
> > Does anybody know whats going wrong?
> >
> > % iwlist eth2 scanning
> > shows my network as well does kismet run without any issues, only the
> > connect fails =(.
> >
> > Any help is very welcome. I don't have eny firewall rules, all iptables
> > chains are open.
> >
> > If i set wep to off only for test i see the same in dmesg (after unloading
> > the module and restarting modproge, ifconfig .. up, iwconfig...
> > bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xf5, pl 0xcc (2004-01-21 19:04:18)
> > bcm43xx: Radio turned on
> > bcm43xx: Chip initialized
> > bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized
> > bcm43xx: Keys cleared
> > bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
> > PM: Adding info for No Bus:hw_random
> > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
> > SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> > SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
> > bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
> > SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> > SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54
> > SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
> > authentication
> > SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54.
> > SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:17:31:bf:73:54 failed, error code: 13
> > SoftMAC: Already associating or associated to 00:17:31:bf:73:54
> >
> > Thanks, frustrtated,
> > Joerg
> >
> > On 5 May 2007 16:45:39 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmostoso@freesurf.ch>
> > wrote:
> >> On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:00:08 +0200, William Xu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ah, it seems that's the cause. After completely removing MOL, the
> >>> wireless network finally comes up, for the first time!
> >>
> >> I guess it's not fair to call this a bug, but maybe it could be useful
> > to
> >> introduce in the MOL documentation a setup guide to enable networking in
> >> MOL without breaking it in the guest system. I am not expert enough with
> >> iptables to really debug what happened, but I couldn't get the network
> > to
> >> work even by flushing all iptables rules (iptables -F). The only way was
> >> to setup the network as desired and then reboot. No way to make it work
> >> without a reboot.
> >>
> >> Then I realized I didn't really need networking in MOL, so I just
> >> uninstalled the thing.
> >>
> >> Maybe a wishlist priority bug could do.
> >>
> >>> Thanks for your help.
> >>
> >> Glad I could help :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best Regards, Jack
> >> Linux User #264449
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> >>
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