Intel Pro Wireless 3945

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

On 5/11/07, fedora-list-request at redhat.com
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> Message: 12
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:28:09 -0400
> From: Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: Intel Pro Wireless 3945
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20070511192809.GI2807 at psilocybe.teonanacatl.org>
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> Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >   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]
>
> It looks like there might be some error in the config with the device
> setting?
>
> I'm using NetworkManager here, and the wpa_supplicant service is
> disabled (via chkconfig).  NM handles starting it when needed.  I
> connect to my home network using WPA2 and it's worked wonderfully for
> a long time.
>
> Are you using NM or the older network service (and
> system-config-network)?

  I am using NM, with wpa_supp enabled. Should I disable it?

  How do I configure the device setting when using NM?

  Thanks!

     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/