ipw3945 & WEP

[Ben Gamari]

I think I actually had the same problem with WEP association (it was a
while ago and then I finally gave up). Have you tried associating with
wireless-tools? For being such a new and supposed "well-supported" card,
the 3945 is unreliable as hell in my experience (perhaps the driver is
still stabilizing). Anyways, I'd try asking on the ipw3945 mailing list.
They seem to be pretty good about responding to questions. Good luck,

- Ben


On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 15:01 -0400, clockwork at sigsys.org wrote:
> So nobody can offer any assistance with this ?
> 
> On 9/28/06, clockwork at sigsys.org <clockwork at sigsys.org> wrote:
>         So I am using ipw3945, which works great for non-encrypted
>         networks, and works great for my wpa2 network. However when I
>         try to use static WEP I dont associate with the AP. The light
>         on my thinkpad goes ape (blinking hyper-fast) then goes solid
>         for a few seconds, then hyper again. The repeats non-stop. The
>         first question I have is if my config is ok or not: 
>         
>         network={ 
>                 ssid="work" 
>                 key_mgmt=NONE 
>                 wep_key0=$hexversionofkey 
>                 priority=5 
>                 wep_tx_keyidx=0 
>                 auth_alg=SHARED 
>         } 
>         network={ 
>                 ssid="home" 
>                 proto=WPA2 
>                 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK 
>                 priority=5 
>                 psk=$wpakey 
>                 pairwise=CCMP 
>                 group=CCMP 
>         } 
>         
>         The second question would be if anyone has this working or
>         not ? What kernel modules are required (besides ipw3945) I
>         have ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp
>         loaded. 
>         
>         Applicable versions:
>         ieee80211 1.1.13
>         wpa_supplicant 0.5.4
>         ipw3945 1.1.0
>         
>         Thanks for any help
> 
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