Re: ipw3945 with wpa-psk and NM

[Louis Garcia <louisg00 bellsouth net>]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:41 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:42 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:26 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > > Just got a new HP dv2000 laptop with ipw3945. Setup winXP with wpa-psk
> > > > and a netgear router and it worked. Couldn't wait to get FC6 on it.
> > > > After a bit of a struggle with the ipw3935 driver and the reg-daemon I
> > > > finally managed to get the wireless working but only the old way. I
> > > > created a network-script ifcfg-eth1 with an open network and it worked.
> > > > Now I would like to get NM working with wpa-psk.
> > > > 
> > > > Should I remove the network script and start new? Do I have to do
> > > > anything with wpa_supplicant? Is there a fedora specific howto
> > > > somewhere?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks, --Louis 
> > > > 
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> > > 
> > > This is the log of NM: I believe for some reason ipw3945 is off. I have
> > > ask the ipw3945 developers what is a frequency kill switch and how do I
> > > turn it off.  
> > 
> > Most new laptops with builtin wireless have an RF kill switch these
> > days.  It allows you to hit a hardware button on the laptop and
> > immediately cease transmission of anything from the card.  For
> > airplanes, for example.  In any case, there isn't yet a good interface
> > for wireless cards & drivers under Linux.  It would be great if there
> > was, because then we could detect whether or not the card's RF was off,
> > and then do the right thing.  But we're not going to hack up solutions
> > to every different driver.  Furthermore, not all drivers that support RF
> > kill switches actually expose them to userspace at all.  Worse yet, kill
> > switches are often OEM-dependent and the interface with which they
> > connect is different between say HP and Dell even when the same exact
> > wireless hardware is used.
> > 
> > It's a mess.
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> There is a switch in front of the laptop which I have on all the time. I
> have found the rf_kill file in /sys and it was set to 0. What I don't
> get is if I bring the wireless interface up the old way, with a
> network-script, it works. It doesn't work for NM though. I hope there is
> a model-specific code for HP somewhere.
> 
> 
> -Louis

To confirm this, I created a network-script
called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 then i started it,
#ifup eth1, the led lit up, got the ip and the card was connected. I set
the router to open for this test. Now I stopped eth1, #ifdown eth1. I
started NetworkManager and tried to connect to the same open router and
couldn't. The led of the wireless was off.

Is Network-manager bringing up the wireless card the same way as the
network-script? 

-Louis