Hi all! I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless adapter. I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA auth).
# /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart * Stopping eth1 * Bringing down eth1 * Stopping dhcpcd on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Shutting down eth1 ... [ ok ] * Stopping wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Stopping wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable Could not configure driver to use managed mode ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Resource temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 - * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Failed to configure eth1 in the background Ugly, uh? :/ dmesg output: ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. ipw3945: request scan called when driver not ready. ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels) ipw3945: Error sending SCAN_ABORT_CMD: time out after 500ms. ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms. ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels) Some extra info: I'm using the internal ieee8021x stack with gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 * net-wireless/ipw3945 Latest version available: 1.2.0 Latest version installed: 1.2.0 * net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode Latest version available: 1.14.2 Latest version installed: 1.14.2 * net-wireless/ipw3945d Latest version available: 1.7.22-r4 Latest version installed: 1.7.22-r4 * net-wireless/wpa_supplicant Latest version available: 0.5.7 Latest version installed: 0.5.7 # lspci | grep "Wireless" 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) # pcitweak -l 2>&1 | grep " 03.00.0:" PCI: 03:00:0: chip 8086,4222 card 8086,1041 rev 02 class 02,80,00 hdr 00 # iwconfig eth1 eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency= 2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off 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:179 Missed beacon:0 /etc/conf.d/net extract: modules_eth1=( "!plug" "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" associate_timeout_eth1="60" /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf extract (the problem isn't here though, it fails with all types of configurations): ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 update_config=0 eapol_version=1 ap_scan=0 fast_reauth=1 network={ ssid="XXXXXXXXXX" priority=1 key_mgmt=NONE auth_alg=SHARED wep_key0="XXXXXXX" wep_tx_keyidx=0 } Sorry for the length. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, José Pedro