Hi,
The new, updated wpa_support will be going out today, for SL50, 51, and 52.
That (as far as I've tested) doesn't have any side effects. I'm still testing
the updated udev, which seems to also be needed.
Although that error about contacting your system administrator is new, I
haven't seen that one.
Troy
William Shu wrote:
Hi,
Can I also conclude that the iwl3945 is also broke for my "Intel
PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection"? (I have been closely
following the thread with subject "atheros wifi connect problem" and its
leads in the hope that it can solve mine.) Things have gotten worse as
the updated network manager (NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.src.rpm)
cannot detect wireless connection, and I have to activate the device
manually!
I still get the message:
"Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument."
when I manually activate the wireless device (on eth1)
Also, when I click on the icon for the eth1 (wireless) connection
properties, I still get the error message:
" Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem:
Could not parse interface statistics from ' eth1'. prx_idx = 1; ptx_idx
= 9; brx_idx = 0; btx_idx = 8;"
Furthermore, wpa_supplicant does not work and produces the same error
messages (essentially) to those presented in the above-cited atheros thread.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance or leads. Please assistance
should not involve changing the stock SL kernel as other programs will
not work.
I laptop runs SL 5.0
[...@hpsl5 ~]$ uname -a
Linux hpsl5 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 12:27:46 EST
2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
William.
--- On *Thu, 3/26/09, William Shu /<ws...@yahoo.com>/* wrote:
From: William Shu <ws...@yahoo.com>
Subject: problems with iwl3945 wireless connection properties
To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov
Cc: ws...@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 12:06 PM
Hi,
Does anyone have some experience in dealing with "statistics errors"
deriving from the "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection"?
Secondly, I do not know from where ipw3945 is coming from (in
dmesg), since I disabled the ipw3945d daemon. Could this be a problem?
I describe the scenario below.
I have an hp laptop running SL 5.0
[...@hpsl5 ~]$ uname -a
Linux hpsl5 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 12:27:46 EST
2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
which has the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection
linked to the eth1 device, that I had setup using the ipw3945d
daemon. (ipw3945d does not permit wpa-psk but in the interim I use
WEP protocol)
Things started happening when I installed the gspcav1-*.rpm from the
atrpms repository and it installed the package
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen*, amongst others, for
dependency. I also had to install some iwl*3945* package which
introduced some clashes.
I lost network connection, until, after trial and error, I installed
the corresponding package, iwlwifi-3945.ucode, from sl-security and
disabled the ipw3945 daemon from network services. (I then regained
wireless connectivity, but do not know yet if there are other problems.)
However, when I click on the icon for the eth1 (wireless) connection
properties, I get the error message:
" Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following
problem:
Could not parse interface statistics from ' eth1'. prx_idx = 1;
ptx_idx = 9; brx_idx = 0; btx_idx = 8;"
Unfortunately, I am my own systems administrator, and do not know
how to go about this. From past mail, I visited the sites
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=howto-iwlwifi
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/tar.php?p=iwlwifi&a=iwlwifi-1.2.25.tgz&f=INSTALL
but could not still figure things out! The introduce devices such as
wlan0 which are not found un my machine.
Looking at dmesg, some of the relevant messages seem to be (bits
snipped out):
[...@hpsl5 ~]$ dmesg | tail -400 | less
<..snip..>
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd0006000, irq 21, MAC addr
00:16:D4:3A:20:40
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.2.18
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
<jketr...@linux.intel.com>
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:08:06.3 [104c:803c] (rev 0)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:06.3[D] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xd0007800 irq 21 PIO
iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver
for Linux, 1
.2.26ks
iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
intel_rng: FWH not detected
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
<..snip..>
william.
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