Public bug reported:
I found I am unable to connect to a WPA-personal secured wireless
network using an iwl3945-based card, unless the linux-backport-modules-
jaunty package is installed. After installing this, I was able to
connect without issue. It is important to note that I could still
connect to an unsecured network (not sure about WEP) without the
backports installed.
Prior to installing the backports package, any attempts to connect using
NetworkManager would end up spamming the debug logs with the following
(1 every few seconds):
Mar 24 08:05:38 mach4 kernel: [ 851.021878] wlan0: authenticate with AP
00:0f:b5:e7:6f:96
Mar 24 08:05:38 mach4 kernel: [ 851.021895] wlan0: authenticated
Mar 24 08:05:38 mach4 kernel: [ 851.021901] wlan0: associate with AP
00:0f:b5:e7:6f:96
Mar 24 08:05:38 mach4 kernel: [ 851.027643] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from
00:0f:b5:e7:6f:96 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
Mar 24 08:05:38 mach4 kernel: [ 851.027649] wlan0: associated
Mar 24 08:05:38 mach4 kernel: [ 851.030674] wlan0: disassociating by local
choice (reason=3)
I then tried with wpa_supplicant, but that displayed the following errors
during logging, and would keep disconnecting itself:
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
Driver did not support SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
After browsing around a bit through some other bugs, I decided to try
installing the backport-modules package, which ended up fixing the
problem.
I have the following packages and versions installed:
linux-restricted-modules-generic: 2.6.28.11.13
linux-backports-modules-jaunty: 2.6.28.11.13
wpasupplicant: 0.6.6-2
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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iwl3945 unable to connect to WPA personal without linux-backports-modules being
installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347572
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