[arch-general] netcfg 2.1.1 problem
Hello, after upgrading netcfg from 2.0.6 to 2.1.1 I can no longer connect to my wireless router (luckily downgrading back solves it). I know I should file a bug report and I will, I only wanted to ask what information is relevant, for output of which programs I should look, etc. Unfortunately I know almost nothing about wireless networks or how netcfg really works but when I was trying to manually do the interesting steps that I found in /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr, it seemed to me that the problem occurs in wpa_check() where wpa_cli status always returns SCANNING until it all times out. For some reason this doesn't happen with netcfg 2.0.6 so I suppose the previous steps that prepare everything do something in a different way. Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera
2008/9/28 Ondřej Kučera <ondrej.kucera@centrum.cz>:
Hello,
after upgrading netcfg from 2.0.6 to 2.1.1 I can no longer connect to my wireless router (luckily downgrading back solves it). I know I should file a bug report and I will, I only wanted to ask what information is relevant, for output of which programs I should look, etc. Unfortunately I know almost nothing about wireless networks or how netcfg really works but when I was trying to manually do the interesting steps that I found in /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr, it seemed to me that the problem occurs in wpa_check() where wpa_cli status always returns SCANNING until it all times out. For some reason this doesn't happen with netcfg 2.0.6 so I suppose the previous steps that prepare everything do something in a different way.
What driver? http://archlinux.org/news/410/ The major change between 2.1 and 2.0 is that any driver specific workarounds/hacks have been disabled by default. You can re-enable them using the QUIRKS array documented on the wiki. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles#Driver_Quirks_.28netcfg...
Hi, James Rayner wrote:
What driver?
http://archlinux.org/news/410/
The major change between 2.1 and 2.0 is that any driver specific workarounds/hacks have been disabled by default. You can re-enable them using the QUIRKS array documented on the wiki.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles#Driver_Quirks_.28netcfg...
Aah, thanks. I actually read the news but then forgot all about it since. Anyway just for the record, my driver is iwl3945 and what helped was QUIRKS=(preessid wpaessid) (I'm writing this because I couldn't google it, I had to try a couple of different combinations, this way Google should index the maillist archive sooner or later and maybe it could help someone). Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera
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