Bug 208720

Summary:	wireless-tools needs to be upgraded to interact with post-2.6.18-git8 kernels
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi>
Component:	wireless-tools	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Alessandro Suardi 2006-09-30 20:32:06 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #208719 +++

Description of problem:

WPA association fails between ipw2200 card and D-Link DSL-G604T AP
 after updating from Torvalds kernel 2.6.18-git8 to 2.6.18-git9.

2.6.18-git9 Torvalds kernels introduce wireless extensions v21,
 which are already known to break wireless-tools-28.0.pre13.5.1
 as per Jean Tourrhiles comments in this lkml thread:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0609.3/2148.html

 as it turns out from further tests, updating wireless-tools to
 Jean's latest tarball (wireless_tools.29.pre10.tar.gz) is a
 requirement (though not enough; wpa_supplicant is also an user
 of wireless extensions and needs to be built from the 0.4.9
 sources to make WPA association work again with 2.6.18-git9
 and further).
 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

wireless-tools-28-0.pre13.5.1

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

1. boot a 2.6.18-git9 or later kernel
2. ifup eth1
3. wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -ieth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
  
Actual results:

ip a reports eth1 as NO-CARRIER and pinging the AP doesn't work

Expected results:

networking functionality should be available

Additional info:

This bug is filed upon suggestion by Dave Jones at the end of the
 mentioned lkml thread.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:53:02 UTC

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Comment 4 Alessandro Suardi 2008-04-04 21:19:24 UTC

Changing to NOTABUG, as DaveJ seems to never have really took a look here :)

For the record, the kernel transaction that introduced the incompatibility was
temporarily reverted a while ago until wireless-tools-29 was released, according
to Linus' policy "kernel changes must not break userspace".