On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:37 -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 10/11/2007 10:11 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I've been watching for some action on this thread as I have the same > > chip giving me fits. It appears that I have to use the built-in keys > > to turn the radio off and then back on to get it to actually wake up > > and connect. Its been a little frustrating. I've also found Network > > Manager to be unpredictable if not down right impossible to use. It > > seems to be too smart for its own good sometimes. > > > > I've ended up having to use a different tool: wifi-radar and (shudder) > > rebooting to get wireless to work. Typically, the dance I had to go > > (this was on a cross coutnry trip -- different wireless in each hotel) > > through was down all the interfaces, comment out the wired ethernet > > from /etc/network/interfaces, reboot, then use wifi-radar to connect > > entering appropriate keys etc. Sometimes I'd have to manually shutdown > > the radio (as above) and bring it back up to get it to go. > > > > I'm not convinced that my problems are necessarily with the > > driver/interface but that cycling the radio thing suggests it might > > be. > > > > I'm planning to wipe that lappy and start over anyway (need to use > > encryption) so I'll start over from scratch on the wireless. If I get > > anything useful I'll post it up. > > I simply use the interfaces file with mapping for the various wireless > networks I use, and a script with 'iwlist eth1 scan' to figure out which > AP I am in range of. > > I do not recall where I stumbled across this setting, but it definitely > helped my issues with connecting to some APs from my T60 w/ipw3945. I > added the 'associate=1' option to the module load, and all was well: > > $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d > install ipw3945 modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 associate=1 && > /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-start > remove ipw3945 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-stop && modprobe -r > --ignore-remove ipw3945
I have tried almost every solution I have found on the internet (I *really* need wifi) and suprise: I had contact with my AP. Once. Slowly. Me happy ;-). Rebooted to verify the solution. Nothing works ........ I am desperate and suddenly know why the rest of the world does not like Linux and only the motivated survive..... -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
