Stefan Bellon wrote: >I have a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 which needs the ipw3945 driver in >order to make WLAN working. > >I removed all of IEEE802.11 from the kernel sources of the 2.6.16 >kernel, installed an up-to-date IEEE802.11 subsystem (version 1.1.12), >installed version 1.0.2 of the ipw3945 software from sourceforge and >the required firmware binary and the user space daemon. > >The relevant dmesg output looks like this: > >ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' >ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.12 >ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for >Linux, 1.0.2d >ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation >ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection >ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a >channels) > >The WLAN LED is flickering all the time in this state. iwconfig shows >the following: > >io:/home/sbellon# iwconfig eth1 >eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any > Mode:Managed Frequency=nan kHz 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:1 Missed beacon:0 > >Even after setting the ESSID and a key, with > ># iwconfig eth1 essid <ESSID> ># iwconfig eth1 key <KEY> > >there's still no link quality, no frequency, no access point, no bit >rate etc. in the iwconfig output. > >And eth1 doesn't show up in ifconfig either. Should it? > >What am I missing? > >Although I'm quite skilled with TCP/IP networking in general, I'm >very new to WLAN and would welcome some link to a WLAN Debian HOWTO >or something similar. > >In addition to the above questions: Even if I've managed to bring up >the WLAN interface by hand, how can I automate it? For wired LAN I >use DHCP at work and at home, so the notebook gets always the correct >environment configuration. Can I do something similar for WLAN as well? >Does this work by just adding eth1 to /etc/network/interfaces once >the basic low-level problems are solved? > >Thanks a lot for your help already in advance! > > > Hi, Have you added a line to /etc/network/interfaces ? somthing similar to your eth1 line "iface eth1 dhcp" should work, you should then be able to use "ifup eth1" to bring up the card using dhcp. You may still want to set a key and essid (see man iwconfig).
Of course that is fine for one wireless lan, but I am not sure about the best way to get the wireless card to try several keys and find the one that works on the current hotspot (please let me know if you find a solution to that). Anton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
