-----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