Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 160648
ipw2200 needs to be compiled builtin for wpa support
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:20:16 EST
Description of problem: After installing the firmware and wpa_supplicant as well as configuring the supplicant properly i get iocontrol errors instead of a connection to the wlan. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc4 stock How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install the firmware 2.install wpa_supplicant and configure it as well as the essid of the interface 3.try to start a wlan connection with wpa encryption and watch it explode Actual results: ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported Failed to set encryption. Expected results: wlan connection with wpa support Additional info: I found this thread on the sf.net ipw list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6767966&forum_id=38938 Would be nice to have the info verified and even better to see the problem fixed or worked around with a builtin driver.
A driver shouldn't offer different functionality based upon whether its modular or built-in, please take this up with upstream. Changing this to non-modular in the Fedora kernel isn't an option.