Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've only tested this procedure myself, so feel free to contribute > > additional information to the wiki page, and reply to this thread if > > you encounter any problems (cc me in this case, as I'm not on d-u). > > 2) some of the iwconfig settings (particularly "mode" and maybe > others) require the interface to be *down* before you can set them. So > in my case where I scan for available access points and then set mode > and ssid etc accordingly I have to up the interface, scan, down the > interface, set some stuff, up the interface again to set more stuff > and then pass it back to ifup to let it finish configuring the > interface. It's kind of a pain, but it seems to work. Interesting. Maybe this is part of the issue that stands between me and wpa_supplicant being able to connect to WEP - it can't for now and that's extremely annoying. > 4) it appears that WEP doesn't work for ad-hoc networks :( Well, as I've said, not only there, but wpa_supplicant seems to have problems, too. Good thing is: WPA at least Works for Me. But there are some caveats I could throw in as well: * Once you've brought up wpa_supplicant on your wireless interface, the driver does not know how to go back. If you kill wpa_supplicant (like when you suspend and go somewhere else and want to connect to another WEP AP) - congratulations, your driver is now officially hosed. You will have to: rmmod iwl3945 mac80211 cfg80211 arc4 ecb firmware_class && modprobe iwl3945 After this step succeeds, everything seems to be fine again, HOWEVER: * Sometimes this will go wrong. Terribly wrong. Modprobe and pdflush go hand in hand right into the abyss, coming back as CPU-eating undead and unkillable zomies. Yay. Only thing that really helps is hard reset, as working on a 100%-devoured CPU is no fun and my kill-9-voodoo doesn't work on neither of the offenders. As an aside, I'm not using the Debian stock kernel, but a recently compiled vanilla. So I hope it's not me who's causing the trouble here, though I doubt it. Aleks
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