[opensuse] no WLAN with ipw2100
If i do 'iwlist eth1 scanning' I get 17 access points listed. All have in common that reported 'Quality' is at least 16 but 'Signal' level is zero, e.g like this: Cell 11 - Address: 00:1C:4A:D3:86:88 ESSID:"MyWlan" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality:90 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Extra: Last beacon: 468ms ago Of course no connection neither with NetworkManager nor with traditional iwconfig/ifup is possible. NetworkManger even does not show me the access points. Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware? With openSUSE-11.1 WLAN did work almost perfect. Starting witn openSUSE-11.2 it was no longer possible to associate to an AP while NetworkManager was still showing them all. Thanks Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Stefan Quandt wrote:
Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware?
I'm using the iwlagn driver on my laptop. While I normally do not have trouble with it, during my last vacation I could not connect to the WLAN of the hotel I was staying in. I could see the network, but not connect to it, until I also entered the MAC address of the access point in my config (using traditional ifup). If desperate, you might try that, too. Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 10, 15:17:11 schrieb Peter Suetterlin:
Stefan Quandt wrote:
Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware?
I'm using the iwlagn driver on my laptop. While I normally do not have trouble with it, during my last vacation I could not connect to the WLAN of the hotel I was staying in. I could see the network, but not connect to it, until I also entered the MAC address of the access point in my config (using traditional ifup).
If desperate, you might try that, too.
Pit
Thanks for your suggestion, but doing iwconfig eth1 ap <MAC address> has no effect (interface remains unassociated). To me it looks like the ipw2100 driver is not fully ported to the current kernel network infrastructure and thus just broken. The driver is still able to scan access points but nothing more. iwlist eth1 scan |grep Quality gives me Quality:79 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:16 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:35 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:33 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:61 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:20 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:39 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:16 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:31 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:93 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:18 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:16 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:18 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Quality:23 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010, 16:46:59 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
To me it looks like the ipw2100 driver is not fully ported to the current kernel network infrastructure and thus just broken.
If so you need to open a bug on bugzilla.novell.com and point to the fix that should be part of the next kernel update. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010, 16:46:59 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
To me it looks like the ipw2100 driver is not fully ported to the current kernel network infrastructure and thus just broken.
If so you need to open a bug on bugzilla.novell.com and point to the fix that should be part of the next kernel update.
Sven I will update bug 530264 on the current state (yesterday I could not login to novell.com due to problems with konqueror and rekonq does not run because I can not find the repository for required
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 10, 00:40:07 schrieb Sven Burmeister: libkcmutils. In short: Problems over problems even with shiny new openSUSE-11.3). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, 07:27:13 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
I will update bug 530264 on the current state (yesterday I could not login to novell.com due to problems with konqueror and rekonq does not run because I can not find the repository for required libkcmutils. In short: Problems over problems even with shiny new openSUSE-11.3).
Which repo do you install rekonq from? Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 10, 10:22:57 schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, 07:27:13 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
(yesterday I could not login to novell.com due to problems with konqueror and rekonq does not run because I can not find the repository for required libkcmutils. In short: Problems over problems even with shiny new openSUSE-11.3). Which repo do you install rekonq from?
zypper> se -s rekonq S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+--------------------+------------+-----------+--------+----------- i | rekonq | package | 0.5.0-7.2 | i586 | KDE Extra zypper> lr 3 Alias : KDE_Extra Name : KDE Extra URI : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distr... Enabled : Yes Priority : 99 Auto-refresh : Off Keep Packages : Off Type : rpm-md GPG Check : On GPG Key URI : Path Prefix : / Parent Service : MD Cache Path : /var/cache/zypp/raw/KDE_Extra Thanks Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, 16:31:54 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 10, 10:22:57 schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, 07:27:13 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
(yesterday I could not login to novell.com due to problems with konqueror and rekonq does not run because I can not find the repository for required libkcmutils. In short: Problems over problems even with shiny new openSUSE-11.3).
Which repo do you install rekonq from?
zypper> se -s rekonq S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+--------------------+------------+-----------+--------+----------- i | rekonq | package | 0.5.0-7.2 | i586 | KDE Extra
zypper> lr 3 Alias : KDE_Extra Name : KDE Extra URI : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Dist ro_Factory/ Enabled : Yes Priority : 99 Auto-refresh : Off
With refresh=off zypper won't get any new info on updated packages. And I hope you use the main Factory repo as well because without the KDE from that repo the rxtra for Factory does not make sense. And make sure your oss repo is enabled as well. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Freitag, 30. Juli 10, 10:24:51 schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, 16:31:54 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 10, 10:22:57 schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, 07:27:13 schrieb Stefan Quandt:
(yesterday I could not login to novell.com due to problems with konqueror and rekonq does not run because I can not find the repository for required libkcmutils. In short: Problems over problems even with shiny new openSUSE-11.3).
Which repo do you install rekonq from?
zypper> se -s rekonq S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+--------------------+------------+-----------+--------+----------- i | rekonq | package | 0.5.0-7.2 | i586 | KDE Extra
zypper> lr 3 Alias : KDE_Extra Name : KDE Extra URI : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Di st ro_Factory/ Enabled : Yes Priority : 99 Auto-refresh : Off
And I hope you use the main Factory repo as well because without the KDE from that repo the rxtra for Factory does not make sense. Hmm, no not KDE from factory: I use the 11.3 repos.
I think I picked this KDE Extras repo by searching for rekonq on software.opensuse.org. I used the default filter "openSUSE 11.3" but nevertheless the search result lists rekonq from this "KDE:Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Factory" repo first. I just clicked it and this was a mistake. And other people will follow. Thus software search needs tweaking. Thanks Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.07.2010 12:08, schrieb Stefan Quandt:
If i do 'iwlist eth1 scanning' I get 17 access points listed. All have in common that reported 'Quality' is at least 16 but 'Signal' level is zero, e.g like this:
[...]
Of course no connection neither with NetworkManager nor with traditional iwconfig/ifup is possible. NetworkManger even does not show me the access points.
Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware?
With openSUSE-11.1 WLAN did work almost perfect. Starting witn openSUSE-11.2 it was no longer possible to associate to an AP while NetworkManager was still showing them all.
Hi Stefan, I use an IBM Thinkpad R50 with Centrino chipset and have the same problem. My WLAN card worked fine with 11.2, and refuses to connect with 11.3. Signal is available (4 APs are shown), but no connection. At boot time, I get the warning that the hardware does not support WPA2 and therefore the connection can't be stablished. Strange that the hardware was able to cope with WPA2 in openSUSE 11.2. On http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ipw2100 it is reported that the firmware may crash in newer kernel versions. But in kernel 2.6.9 everything was well... Regards, Werner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMUbG0AAoJEOfJ7bNoiiCNfdgIALfMSEL6LwQy4V3CiSH5C98R ZFZnKOT4DN6d0NNuUzd8MpjjILyIDvskDEcJQxBUFfGT6twNfW1ZroeRkS5OPOBc xOZbo+74pwHaebyW9Ogcp2N3pXIuajbM4btD/tL5hUtcI1rz6FTMoAJ6ZuX4pA3k II4IPjywBk56AilmNeVJU/TJygmOeITbwBtXcts4wi7sFqYsIu0SXa8I/8VOU21h ItM34z8mLBSVPn/cPxMciw8aYwylMEnHpxGzaVEvPnGFbGbjQOFzuNf6W50qHYZj 3WI+YJWI29BeEZ2dEyubB/nVuu+cyPYX8rbnsPh44cdhFn7W0nBtR60+7vDgvOk= =bmyP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday, 29. July 10 18:52:07 Werner Flamme wrote:
Am 27.07.2010 12:08, schrieb Stefan Quandt:
If i do 'iwlist eth1 scanning' I get 17 access points listed. All have in common that reported 'Quality' is at least 16 but 'Signal' level
is zero, e.g like this: [...]
Of course no connection neither with NetworkManager nor with traditional iwconfig/ifup is possible. NetworkManger even does not show me the access points.
Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware?
With openSUSE-11.1 WLAN did work almost perfect. Starting witn openSUSE-11.2 it was no longer possible to associate to an AP while NetworkManager was still showing them all.
Hi Stefan,
I use an IBM Thinkpad R50 with Centrino chipset and have the same problem. My WLAN card worked fine with 11.2, and refuses to connect with 11.3. Signal is available (4 APs are shown), but no connection. At boot time, I get the warning that the hardware does not support WPA2 and therefore the connection can't be stablished. Strange that the hardware was able to cope with WPA2 in openSUSE 11.2. Meanwhile I found out that iwlist reporting zero signal level and link quality greater then zero is just wrong but common and not relevant. The ipw2100 driver is able to connect despite that.
It turned out that in my case there is a confusion regarding RFKILL state, see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14098 (start at comment #14) Right now it looks to mee ike that mostly (or maybe exclusively) dell notebooks are affected. In fact there was an rfkill suspen/resume related patch in thinkpad-acpi in kernel 2.6.31.9, see http://lwn.net/Articles/367445 thus this should be fixed. Is your driver ipw2200 or something else? If you see an error 132 when wpa_supplicant is executed then you have the same issue then me (in my case this does not get logged to /var/log/messages). In this case the rfkill command (package rfkill) will help, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530264 Otherwise http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Tracking_down_wireless_problems#How_to_set_up_a_c... will be helpful to track down issues in general. Regards Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.07.2010 09:53, schrieb Stefan Quandt:
On Thursday, 29. July 10 18:52:07 Werner Flamme wrote:
Am 27.07.2010 12:08, schrieb Stefan Quandt:
If i do 'iwlist eth1 scanning' I get 17 access points listed. All have in common that reported 'Quality' is at least 16 but 'Signal' level
is zero, e.g like this: [...]
Of course no connection neither with NetworkManager nor with traditional iwconfig/ifup is possible. NetworkManger even does not show me the access points.
Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware?
With openSUSE-11.1 WLAN did work almost perfect. Starting witn openSUSE-11.2 it was no longer possible to associate to an AP while NetworkManager was still showing them all.
Hi Stefan,
I use an IBM Thinkpad R50 with Centrino chipset and have the same problem. My WLAN card worked fine with 11.2, and refuses to connect with 11.3. Signal is available (4 APs are shown), but no connection. At boot time, I get the warning that the hardware does not support WPA2 and therefore the connection can't be stablished. Strange that the hardware was able to cope with WPA2 in openSUSE 11.2. Meanwhile I found out that iwlist reporting zero signal level and link quality greater then zero is just wrong but common and not relevant. The ipw2100 driver is able to connect despite that.
It turned out that in my case there is a confusion regarding RFKILL state, see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14098 (start at comment #14) Right now it looks to mee ike that mostly (or maybe exclusively) dell notebooks are affected.
rfkill attributes seem to be set correctly. "rfkill list all" shows that the interface (phy0) is not locked. Unlike your case, my WLAN worked fine with openSUSE 11.2.
In fact there was an rfkill suspen/resume related patch in thinkpad-acpi in kernel 2.6.31.9, see http://lwn.net/Articles/367445 thus this should be fixed. Is your driver ipw2200 or something else?
Yes, my driver is ipw2200. lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 183086 0 libipw 41980 1 ipw2200 cfg80211 155663 2 libipw,ipw2200 lib80211 5462 2 libipw,ipw2200
If you see an error 132 when wpa_supplicant is executed then you have the same issue then me (in my case this does not get logged to /var/log/messages).
When starting wpa_supplicant, I have 2 possiblities: First I tried driver nl80211 because of the 80211 entries in lsmod: wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands Failed to initialize driver interface ELOOP: remaining socket: socket=4 eloop_data=0x80f6928 user_data=0x80f6640 handler=0x80b7800 and I'm back at the command line. Then I tried the generic driver: wpa_supplicant -Dwext (and the rest of the command line as above): ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument and I do not return to command line. The "ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument" is what I remeber from openSUSE 11.2.
In this case the rfkill command (package rfkill) will help, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530264
I do not see an error 132.
Otherwise http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Tracking_down_wireless_problems#How_to_set_up_a_c... will be helpful to track down issues in general.
I will try that page, thanks for mentioning it. Regards, Werner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMU87dAAoJEOfJ7bNoiiCNUxYH/RXbHvlXf6U9bw6fOrQSvqMF gM0uoxaetHMFqZegNgbTm5Pc6Cjinwdk8OuErnyEvY08UNx52Xg167TaECU4Pp4l 2T2wGG8yEJ16EtI6b9RHGgxqJjLQCUedO4Wsm93Yz7l8y/eqlo2mrzg6bSPOsu7T q3+sd2/4cDVYMA5Ry8GGyLGiTrNgfuHsWBuSU5PIIpkWeUH8tZ7ciPDh4XLwttAK gE0//fUE/dms1kjBTYJPetkLKN2OvWF8+WGYtEP3jAn3ka9/1Al7lrOGC5YMZ6qm o06c45N8lhYyd8yKD4QA/xj9osJkZj8FacRqpNzvne4cMztY92jlPlqepio6GPQ= =OvtW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 31.07.2010 09:21, schrieb Werner Flamme:
Am 30.07.2010 09:53, schrieb Stefan Quandt:
[snip}
Otherwise http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Tracking_down_wireless_problems#How_to_set_up_a_c... will be helpful to track down issues in general.
I will try that page, thanks for mentioning it.
I tried it and I got a network connection all right. Many thanks to Helmut Schaa, who wrote this page :-) First step was iwlist eth1 scan My WLAN ESSID showed up (as strongest of the 6 cells shown), so I issued iwconfig eth1 essid FEUER but iwconfig did not show an address for the AP, even after a minute. So I set the AP's address manually (iwconfig eth1 ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) and then both ESSID and AP address were shown. Since I use WPA-PSK, I continued with editing /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, so that it now contains the text mentioned on the page. Next I started wpa_supplicant as suggested with wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf - -dddt and saw a lot of text running over the screen - but I found no error. Hm. I tried "dhcpcd eth1" - and ifconfig shows an address! And I can ping that address from another machine. Great. But why the heck didn't that work from installation on? I first did an update install from 11.2 to 11.3, and the connection did not work. I thought "ah, an old config mashed it up" an did a new install including the creation of an ext4 filesystem instead of the old ext3 one. But still it did not work. Though I entered all data during the install process, wpa_supplicant.conf had only two lines: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel Nothing of the ESSID, nothing of the key. Is this expected behaviour? And will I have to run those steps manually any time that I want to connect via WLAN now? Regards, Werner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMVFCWAAoJEOfJ7bNoiiCNw2cH/0HsjzEG/ZYrLRRtd41Tt9Fw hKSRQj8TZCU5ySNM147nQoLiz+ibIAlKTxWszsE6Y3IsDLhLqm0Fq7QM7iAXv0p9 zRAQUEv766lTgh0zc9KDLfRL/Ty4/KI2UDo4YKTsxs3L1NCfoOeOwSdJ1F8dugDm VwptiZHE228OnSN8ErbPJ/T00V62euEVe/VzLCSOB4vR+qeVu0ngL72+cpo5NR2c S5X9N9cbBkUwp962tWqQUmKhZKEHMw2bSwIOUNkwAjn7l3PceCVFWE52VVj2BV68 tux29u4JLq3uWKaE/33epklEJOB2vMc5z1NbJTIBdh+u8rWVLkuM72xMunHw2sg= =oplq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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