Re: Mostly off-topic, iwlwifi/WPA broken

[Brian Morrison <bdm fenrir org uk>]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:42:44 -0400
Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu> wrote:

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> I'm asking this here because this is a list I subscribe to with
> particularly wireless-knowledgeable folks. Sorry for the noise, but
> someone here hopefully can direct me somewhere better.

I would suggest the ipw3945 list (that covers iwlwifi and all the Intel
hardware really).

> 
> I'm trying to find out how to figure out what is wrong with my wireless
> driver/card. I can't get anywhere with NetworkManager, despite the fact
> that, supposedly, the scan_capa patch was added to my Ubuntu kernel by
> the distro maintainers.
> 
> However, when I start NetworkManager --no-daemon:
> 
> NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver
> 'iwl3945'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver does not support SSID scans
> (scan_capa 0x00).
> 
> ...which makes me assume that my distro did NOT actually add this patch
> (or it was in there and fell out).
> 
> However, as far as I know, the scan_capa patch doesn't actually fix
> anything that can't be manually worked around with wpa_supplicant, right
> (like ap_scan=1)?
> 
> Reason I ask, is I can't get my card to connect to a WPA network with
> any settings anymore, even the same exact settings I used for ipw3945,
> and then with every iteration of ap_scan set. Any advice from anyone? As
> Hardy nears release, I want to see what I might do before I'm stuck with
> this.

Some more information would help. Which kernel? What is the iwlwifi
driver version?

The ipw3945 list can be found here:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipw3945-devel

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