Bug 202267 – =net-wireless/ipw3945-1.2.2 cannot connect to networks with hidden ssid

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description subscryer 2007-12-14 16:20:21 UTC]

The summary says it all, if ssid broadcast is off, I can't connect to my home network, however 1.2.0 does connect without problems.
I have read of this problem in the forum too.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-592046-highlight-ipw3945+hidden.html

The network is set as WPA/PSK. I tried all combinations of SSID hidden and broadcast, 1.2.0 and 1.2.2 to isolate the problem. The wireless router is a linksys, can't remember the model right now.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




equery l wireless-tools
net-wireless/wireless-tools-29

uname -a
Linux mobile 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 24 00:42:04 CEST 2007 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:16:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -mtune=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -mtune=prescott -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/"
LANG="en_GB.utf-8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm arts asf berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv immqt-bc isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pbs pcmcia pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" MISDN_CARDS="hfcsusb" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2007-12-16 21:30:45 UTC]

We can't do much with bugs in Intel's binary blob, sorry. See if http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=972 helps...