iwlwifi, NetworkManager, .... ?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:48:12AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 07:22 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> > I haven't been able to get the 'new and cool' iwlwifi driver included
> > in the latest kernels working with my ipw3945 NIC.
> > 
> > 'iwlist eth0 scan' appears to work properly, but NetworkManager
> > refuses to associate.
> > 
> > I recall in a previous thread that NM needed some patches to make this
> > work. Has that happened?
> > 
> > Fails to associate with open  (thanks Google!), WEP or WPA networks.
> > 
> > Get these messages during boot:
> > 
> > wmaster0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) ; SET failed
> > on device wmaster0 : Operation not supported
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: operation not supported
> > 
> > I've killed NM and tried to associate manually, but haven't been successful.
> > 
> > Any hints?
> 
> I got it to work once when I:
> 
> - found an open network (no key)
> - set the ap manually
> - set the freq manually
> - set the essid manually
> - ran dhclient
> 
> This only worked once. The rest of the times, it didn't work.

Hm. Someone please remind me why we're shipping non-functional software, again?

And why a patch to make plain old ifup/ifdown scripts to work with wpa_supplicant
has been ignored for months[1] or even years[2]?

Attaching a cleaned-up patch from [1] (without cosmetics). Still (!) applies 
cleanly against FC6's initscripts.

Regards,
R.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg00503.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154348

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University  |  http://www.icm.edu.pl  |  tel. +48 (22) 5540810
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--- ifup-wireless.orig	2005-09-30 20:51:15.000000000 +0200
+++ ifup-wireless	2006-04-07 16:09:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,35 @@
 
 # Only meant to be called from ifup.
 
+if wpa_cli -i $DEVICE status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    eval $(wpa_cli -i${DEVICE} status | grep wpa_state 2>/dev/null) 
+    if [ "$wpa_state" != "COMPLETED" ]; then
+	/sbin/ip link set $DEVICE down
+	/sbin/ip link set $DEVICE up
+	wpa_cli scan >/dev/null 2>&1
+    fi
+    old_state=""
+    cnt=0
+    while true; do
+	eval $(wpa_cli -i${DEVICE} status | grep wpa_state 2>/dev/null) 
+	if [ "$wpa_state" = "COMPLETED" ]; then
+	    echo $"Connected to $ssid"
+	    break
+	fi
+	if [ "$old_state" != "$wpa_state" ]; then
+	    echo -n "$wpa_state "
+	    old_state=$wpa_state
+	fi
+
+	sleep 1
+	cnt=$[$cnt + 1]
+	if [ $cnt -gt 60 ]; then
+	    echo -n $"Timeout "
+	    exit 10
+	fi
+    done 
+else
+
 # Mode need to be first : some settings apply only in a specific mode !
 if [ -n "$MODE" ] ; then
     iwconfig $DEVICE mode $MODE
@@ -97,3 +126,5 @@
     # use any essid
     iwconfig $DEVICE essid any >/dev/null 2>&1
 fi
+
+fi