Dear Friends,
Could my inability to connect to wireless networks be caused by a
failure of wpa_supplicant?
This is what wpa_supplicant says when I try to start it:
wpa_supplicant failed. The error was: Stopping wpa_supplicant: [FAILED]
Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
/bin/bash: line 1: 32665 Segmentation fault wpa_supplicant -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -Dndiswrapper -B
[FAILED]
On 5/10/07, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear friends,
Thank you for the help. After installing those packages, Fedora now
recognizes the existence of the IPW adapter and even sees some
networks. At least, that is progress. However, I can not connect to
any wireless network (although I easily can under Win XP).
I tried Menu > System > Administration > Network, which lists eth1
as wireless and inactive. When I try to activate it, it says
"Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.
Check cable?" Apparently, the tool is not aware that wireless does not
have a cable ;)
Interestingly, under Menu > System > Administration > Services, when
I select the entry "network", there is a comment mentioning eth1 as
active.
When I click the icon in the upper right corner, I get a list of
available wireless networks. When I select one, it tries to connect
for some seconds and then stops without giving a reason (if eth0 is
connected, it goes back to that, otherwise, it stays unconnected).
Thanks for your help!
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/
