Re: Unable to switch from ipw3945 to iwl3945
Thanks for the help Andrew. I ran iwconfig wlan0 and see:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"dorkyduck"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:
Not-Associated
Tx-Power=17 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:D3BB-B904-C560-09B3-D9A8-C961-3F
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
This is after manually setting the essid and WEP key. I'm able to scan
for networks and see mine, however it won't associate to the access
point. What else would need to be set?
Thanks,
David
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:10 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:30:26PM -0700, David Jantzen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to move to kernel 2.6.24 and the new iwl3945 drivers. I've
> > uninstalled the old ipw3945 modules and daemons, and followed all the
> > steps described here http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi, but I still can't
> > connect to my router. The errors I see are:
> >
> > Apr 1 19:11:56 nibbler dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address
> > type 801
>
> I see this error too, I think it can be ignored.
>
> > Apr 1 19:11:56 nibbler dhclient: Listening on
> > LPF/wlan0/00:18:de:11:ec:08
> > Apr 1 19:11:56 nibbler dhclient: Sending on
> > LPF/wlan0/00:18:de:11:ec:08
> > Apr 1 19:11:56 nibbler dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
> > Apr 1 19:11:56 nibbler dhclient: receive_packet failed on wlan0:
> > Network is down
> >
> > ifconfig shows the proper devices:
> >
> > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:de:11:ec:08
> > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> >
> > wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> > 00-18-DE-11-EC-08-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> clearly the interface is up. What does iwconfig wlan0 show?
>
> My experience in this transition is that the order things need to be
> done has changed. I do all my stuff with custom scripts, so I can't
> speak to how the more automated systems handle it, but for example, I
> can't change the mode unless the interface is down...
>
> >
> > my /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules contains:
> >
> > # PCI device 10ec:8169 (r8169)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", SYSFS{address}=="00:17:31:b5:2e:c8",
> > NAME="eth0"
> >
> > # FireWire host adapter 00e01800035a8648 (/class/net/eth1)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*",
> > SYSFS{address}=="00:e0:18:00:03:5a:86:48", NAME="eth1"
> >
> > # PCI device 0x8086:0x4222 (iwl3945)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:18:de:11:ec:08",
> > ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="wlan0"
> >
> > And /etc/network/interfaces has:
> >
> > iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> > pre-up ip link set wlan0 up
> > wireless_essid mynetwork
>
> what other parts of the wireless config need to get set? mode, channel
> key etc?
>
> you may have to pull some of that out and put it in a script to call
> from /etc/network/interfaces to get it working until the transistion
> is fully completed (maybe it already is? doesn't quite seem to be to
> me).
>
> A
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