Here’s some shell info on my recently purchased Dell Vostro 3550 64bit notebook, openSuse 12.1 , please help!
[linux-9zr8(root)]
/root> hwinfo --wlan
16: PCI 900.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: y9sn.YRYy5AacvqC
Parent ID: Z7uZ.g5V31Wm1XDB
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:09:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:09:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Intel WLAN controller”
Vendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
Device: pci 0x008a
SubVendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
SubDevice: pci 0x5325
Revision: 0x34
Driver: “iwlagn”
Driver Modules: “iwlagn”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xf7e00000-0xf7e01fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 50 (no events)
HW Address: ac:72:89:52:52:d8
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: “pci:v00008086d0000008Asv00008086sd00005325bc02sc80i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: iwlagn is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe iwlagn”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #8 (PCI bridge)
[linux-9zr8(root)]
/root> iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
[linux-9zr8(root)]
/root> rm -rf /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
[linux-9zr8(root)]
/root> wpa_supplicant -ddd -Diwlagn -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
Initializing interface ‘wlan0’ conf ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’ driver ‘iwlagn’ ctrl_interface ‘N/A’ bridge ‘N/A’
Configuration file ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’ -> ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’
Reading configuration file ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’
ctrl_interface=’/var/run/wpa_supplicant’
ctrl_interface_group=‘wheel’
Unsupported driver ‘iwlagn’.
Failed to add interface wlan0
Cancelling scan request
Cancelling authentication timeout
/root> rm -rf /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
[linux-9zr8(root)]
/root> wpa_supplicant -ddd -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
Initializing interface ‘wlan0’ conf ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’ driver ‘wext’ ctrl_interface ‘N/A’ bridge ‘N/A’
Configuration file ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’ → ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’
Reading configuration file ‘/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf’
ctrl_interface=’/var/run/wpa_supplicant’
ctrl_interface_group=‘wheel’
WEXT: cfg80211-based driver detected
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf flags 0x0
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
Own MAC address: ac:72:89:52:52:d8
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=4 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Driver did not support SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=5 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Driver did not support SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
State: DISCONNECTED → INACTIVE
WPS: UUID based on MAC address - hexdump(len=16): 95 37 ec cb 37 ce 51 87 a7 3f 10 f1 02 c3 ac d8
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
Using existing control interface directory.
ctrl_interface_group=10 (from group name ‘wheel’)
Added interface wlan0
Daemonize…
[linux-9zr8(root)]
/root> wpa_supplicant -h
wpa_supplicant v0.7.3
Copyright (c) 2003-2010, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (OpenSSL: The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS)
usage:
wpa_supplicant -BddhKLqqstuvW] -P<pid file>] -g<global ctrl>]
-i<ifname> -c<config file> -C<ctrl>] -D<driver>] -p<driver_param>]
-b<br_ifname>] -f<debug file>]
-o<override driver>] -O<override ctrl>]
-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> -C<ctrl>] -D<driver>]
-p<driver_param>] -b<br_ifname>] …]
drivers:
wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
hostap = Host AP driver (Intersil Prism2/2.5/3)
atmel = ATMEL AT76C5XXx (USB, PCMCIA)
ndiswrapper = Linux ndiswrapper (deprecated; use wext)
wired = Wired Ethernet driver
ralink = Ralink Wireless Client driver
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