[CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working
Akemi Yagi
amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 17:30:53 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> Progress...
>
> There is NO physical switch. XP had some way of enabling the radio. So I
> went into the bios and played around a bit. Tried an option and now
> NetworkManager sees the card!
>
> But when I enter my WPA passphrase, I keep going back to being asked for
> the passphrase :(
>
> I noticed that NetworkManager is using eth1 for the the wireless
> interface, not wifi0 that I put into modprobe.conf (alias wifi0 ipw3945).
>
> I tried to use wpa_supplicant deamon as I do on my nc4010 that has an
> atheros pci card. man wpa_supplicant lists ipw as a valid device, but
> when I supply this, i get
>
> Unsupported driver 'ipw'
>
> SO why does it not like my passphrase that works just fine with my
> nc4010 and its ahteros card? Granted theweak passphrase I am using fails
> password checkers, but still.....
>
> Or how to use wpa_supplicant instead of NetworkManager (which is pretty
> cool, where is its config files).
Not sure if this helps but might be worthwhile reading the forum thread at:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12881&forum=40
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