Intel Pro Wireless 3945

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Dear Friends,

  Could my inability to connect to wireless networks be caused by a
failure of wpa_supplicant?

  This is what wpa_supplicant says when I try to start it:

wpa_supplicant failed. The error was: Stopping wpa_supplicant: [FAILED]

Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
/bin/bash: line 1: 32665 Segmentation fault      wpa_supplicant -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -Dndiswrapper -B
[FAILED]

On 5/10/07, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>      Dear friends,
>
>   Thank you for the help. After installing those packages, Fedora now
> recognizes the existence of the IPW adapter and even sees some
> networks. At least, that is progress. However, I can not connect to
> any wireless network (although I easily can under Win XP).
>
>   I tried Menu > System > Administration > Network, which lists eth1
> as wireless and inactive. When I try to activate it, it says
> "Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.
> Check cable?" Apparently, the tool is not aware that wireless does not
> have a cable ;)
>
>   Interestingly, under Menu > System > Administration > Services, when
> I select the entry "network", there is a comment mentioning eth1 as
> active.
>
>   When I click the icon in the upper right corner, I get a list of
> available wireless networks. When I select one, it tries to connect
> for some seconds and then stops without giving a reason (if eth0 is
> connected, it goes back to that, otherwise, it stays unconnected).
>
>   Thanks for your help!
>
>      Take care
>      Oliver
>
> --
> Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
> Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
> Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
> http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/
>


-- 
Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/