HOWTO: ipw2200 + wpa

[luca_linux]

@MadJeff: try to unload all ipw2200 and ieee80211* modules and then follow the HowTo again. Then let me know if that worked.

[luca_linux]

Luca you are correct about a bug in ipw2200. I tried it again without ap_scan=2 and could not find my ap. scan-ssid=1 does not correctly configure somthing. So I just commented it out and using the ap_scan. Working great I appreciate you not flaming me. It says I am a newbie but I have played with alot of distro's and I am a Linux SA for Sprint.

No problem. I don't see why I would have flamed you. Your suggesting has been useful.

[majie]

after this, I lost my wireless connection. How can I look back it?

[luca_linux]

after this, I lost my wireless connection. How can I look back it?

What do you mean exactly? After adding "ap_scan=2"?

[majie]

What do you mean exactly? After adding "ap_scan=2"?

I checked the post, I have a problem

You have to install the kernel source package and make a symlink.

is the kernel-source-2.4.27 package.

and how to make a symlink?

[luca_linux]

Have a look at here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=43065

[_whynot]

@MadJeff: try to unload all ipw2200 and ieee80211* modules and then follow the HowTo again. Then let me know if that worked.

Thank you so much for your help, luca! I too am finding that the remove-old scripts are not working. When you say to unload all ipw2200 and ieee80211* modules, are you talking about using rmmod or some other method?

Sorry about the newbie question. Your help is greatly appreciated!

[luca_linux]

Thank you so much for your help, luca! I too am finding that the remove-old scripts are not working. When you say to unload all ipw2200 and ieee80211* modules, are you talking about using rmmod or some other method?

Sorry about the newbie question. Your help is greatly appreciated!

rmmod is deprecated. Use "modprobe -r" instead.

[majie]

jie@ubuntu:~/ipw2200-1.0.6$ make

ERROR: ieee80211.h not found in '/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/include'.

You need to install the ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sf.net
and point this build to the location where you installed those sources, eg.:

% make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211/

will look for ieee80211.h in /usr/src/ieee80211/net/

make: *** [check_inc] Error 1

jie@ubuntu:~/ieee80211-1.0.3$ make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build/ for ieee80211 components...

grep: /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build//.config: No such file or directory
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build M=/home/jie/ieee80211-1.0.3 MODVERDIR=/home/jie/ieee80211-1.0.3 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

what's matter?

[_whynot]

rmmod is deprecated. Use "modprobe -r" instead.

Ah... didn't know that. Thanks!

I ran the command:

sudo modprobe -r ieee80211

which gave no feedback, just a new prompt. Then I ran:

sudo sh remove-old

again just to see if it would take care of the old module. However, I am still getting the errors about references to the old module when I run the make command (see below). Any ideas here?

_whynot@mobiletalon:~/Downloads/ieee80211-1.0.3$ sudo make check_old
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686/build/ for ieee80211 components...

/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686/build/include/config/ieee80211

Above files found.  Remove? [y],n y

 Old ieee80211 references found.  In order to build the ieee80211
 subsystem, prior versions must first be removed.  You can perform
 this task by running this makefile as root via:

        % sudo make check_old

 and answering Y to remove the file references.

 Aborting make.

make: *** [check_old] Error 1
_whynot@mobiletalon:~/Downloads/ieee80211-1.0.3$