This is a new Lenovo Thinkpad T61, with an Intel 3945ABBG wireless chip, T7100 CPU and a new installation of Gentoo. Attempts to bring wlan0 up cause this error: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start [...] * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 - Reproducible: Always I don't know whether this problem is in the iwlwifi driver or in wpa_supplicant. I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3, with its included iwlwifi, but I get the same results on 24-r2 and on 23-r6 and 23-r6 with separate iwlwifi-1.2.23 installed, so perhaps it's in wpa_supplicant. The full output from bringing the interface up: # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start * Starting wlan0 * Loading networking modules for wlan0 * modules: apipa arping ccwgroup macchanger macnet rename wpa_supplicant essidnet iptunnel iproute2 system dhcpcd ip6to4 * wpa_supplicant provides wireless * iproute2 provides interface * dhcpcd provides dhcp * Configuring wlan0 for MAC address 00:1B:77:41:99:DE ... [ ok ] * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 - * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Waiting for association [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... Here is some debugging I've done so far: Result of ifconfig -a with no modules loaded, after booting with softlevel=nonetwork: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:58:84:B8:87 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Base address:0x1840 Memory:fe000000-fe020000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) eth0 is an Intel 82566MM running happily with module e1000. Result of ifconfig -a after modprobe iwl3945: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:58:84:B8:87 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Base address:0x1840 Memory:fe000000-fe020000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:41:99:DE BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-77-41-99-DE-60-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) # ifconfig wlan up wlan: unknown interface: No such device # iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down # wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - Trying to associate with 00:0f:b5:b3:e0:da (SSID='<snip>' freq=2412 MHz) ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - Associated with 00:0f:b5:b3:e0:da WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Associated with 00:0f:b5:b3:e0:da ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Resource temporarily unavailable WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Associated with 00:0f:b5:b3:e0:da WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Associated with 00:0f:b5:b3:e0:da ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Resource temporarily unavailable CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - Those steps were taken sequentially in a single session. # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf update_config=1 eapol_version=1 ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 ap_scan=1 network={ ssid="PRHnet0" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk="[text removed]" priority=5 } # cat /etc/conf.d/net modules=( "iproute2" "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" config_eth0=( "192.168.128.57 netmask 255.255.128.0 brd 192.168.255.255" ) routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.128.1" ) #config_wlan0=( "dhcp" ) config_wlan0=( "192.168.192.57 netmask 255.255.224.0 brd 192.168.255.255" ) routes_wlan0=( "default gw 192.168.192.210" ) I've tried using DHCP instead of the static IP method as shown above, with the same result. I don't try to bring up eth0 and wlan0 simultaneously. I'll attach emerge --info and kernel config in a minute. In case I'd misconfigured something in the kernel, I also tried compiling it with genkernel, using its default configuration and adding things like AHCI that I needed to boot, but resisting the temptation to exclude the hundreds of modules it compiles. I got the same result.
Created attachment 145347 [details] Emerge --info
Created attachment 145348 [details] Kernel config
have you tried adding: mode_wlan0="managed" to the /etc/conf.d/net ? remember you need wireless-tools even if you don't use them.
Both with and without. But the problem has gone away now, and I have no difficulty connecting. I don't know where to go from here...
If the problem has gone anyway and is not reproducible anymore, we should close this bug.
Agreed. As far as I can see it's no longer a problem.
newer kernels fixed this... WORKSFORREPORTER
