Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

[Will Briggs]

� wrote: 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? :/ Yeah A number of things, some of which you may know: 1) Don't add net.eth1 to runlevel.  The ipw3945 module loading (/etc/modprobe.conf) runs ipw3945d init script which brings up net.eth1 which is managed by wpa_supplicant.  If you try and manage net.eth1 yourself (with rc-update, or with something like ifplugd then things will get confused).  I do have netplug configed for eth* but I think it knows how to get out of the way of wpa_supplicant. All you need to do is emerge ipw3945 - no rc-updating needed. 2) If you ever need to restart net.eth1, restart ipw3945d instead. 3) My wpa_supplicant.conf just as comparision: # Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 :: wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant # DO NOT remove this line! ctrl_interface_group=0 # Only allow root to read config. ap_scan=1 # Allows wpa_supplicant to handle AP scanning. # The following configures wpa_supplicant for a WPA network={     ssid="foo"     scan_ssid=1 # Use if SSID broadcast is disabled.     psk="bar" # Your key here. } -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list