Hi,
The new, updated wpa_support will be going out today, for SL50, 51, and 52.
That (as far as I've tested) doesn't have any side effects. I'm still testing
the updated udev, which seems to also be needed.
Although that error about contacting your system administrator is new, I
haven't seen that one.
Troy
William Shu wrote:
> Hi,
> Can I also conclude that the iwl3945 is also broke for my "Intel
> PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection"? (I have been closely
> following the thread with subject "atheros wifi connect problem" and its
> leads in the hope that it can solve mine.) Things have gotten worse as
> the updated network manager (NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.src.rpm)
> cannot detect wireless connection, and I have to activate the device
> manually!
>
> I still get the message:
> "Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument."
> when I manually activate the wireless device (on eth1)
>
> Also, when I click on the icon for the eth1 (wireless) connection
> properties, I still get the error message:
> " Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem:
>
> Could not parse interface statistics from ' eth1'. prx_idx = 1; ptx_idx
> = 9; brx_idx = 0; btx_idx = 8;"
>
> Furthermore, wpa_supplicant does not work and produces the same error
> messages (essentially) to those presented in the above-cited atheros thread.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any assistance or leads. Please assistance
> should not involve changing the stock SL kernel as other programs will
> not work.
>
> I laptop runs SL 5.0
> [wss@hpsl5 ~]$ uname -a
> Linux hpsl5 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 12:27:46 EST
> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> William.
>
> --- On *Thu, 3/26/09, William Shu /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
>
> From: William Shu <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: problems with iwl3945 wireless connection properties
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 12:06 PM
>
> Hi,
> Does anyone have some experience in dealing with "statistics errors"
> deriving from the "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection"?
>
> Secondly, I do not know from where ipw3945 is coming from (in
> dmesg), since I disabled the ipw3945d daemon. Could this be a problem?
>
>
>
> I describe the scenario below.
>
> I have an hp laptop running SL 5.0
>
> [wss@hpsl5 ~]$ uname -a
> Linux hpsl5 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 12:27:46 EST
> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> which has the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection
> linked to the eth1 device, that I had setup using the ipw3945d
> daemon. (ipw3945d does not permit wpa-psk but in the interim I use
> WEP protocol)
>
> Things started happening when I installed the gspcav1-*.rpm from the
> atrpms repository and it installed the package
> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen*, amongst others, for
> dependency. I also had to install some iwl*3945* package which
> introduced some clashes.
>
> I lost network connection, until, after trial and error, I installed
> the corresponding package, iwlwifi-3945.ucode, from sl-security and
> disabled the ipw3945 daemon from network services. (I then regained
> wireless connectivity, but do not know yet if there are other problems.)
>
> However, when I click on the icon for the eth1 (wireless) connection
> properties, I get the error message:
> " Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following
> problem:
>
> Could not parse interface statistics from ' eth1'. prx_idx = 1;
> ptx_idx = 9; brx_idx = 0; btx_idx = 8;"
>
> Unfortunately, I am my own systems administrator, and do not know
> how to go about this. From past mail, I visited the sites
>
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=howto-iwlwifi
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/tar.php?p=iwlwifi&a=iwlwifi-1.2.25.tgz&f=INSTALL
> but could not still figure things out! The introduce devices such as
> wlan0 which are not found un my machine.
>
> Looking at dmesg, some of the relevant messages seem to be (bits
> snipped out):
>
> [wss@hpsl5 ~]$ dmesg | tail -400 | less
> <..snip..>
> Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
> usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
> ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
> e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
> e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd0006000, irq 21, MAC addr
> 00:16:D4:3A:20:40
> ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.2.18
> ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
> <[log in to unmask]>
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
> ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12
> sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
> sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:08:06.3 [104c:803c] (rev 0)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:06.3[D] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
> mmc0: SDHCI at 0xd0007800 irq 21 PIO
> iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver
> for Linux, 1
> .2.26ks
> iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
> iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
> iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
> intel_rng: FWH not detected
> input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
> <..snip..>
>
> william.
>
>
>
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