Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 173073
WPA with ipw2100 fails after upgrade to 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:17 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 Description of problem: Using wpa_supplicant (versions 0.3.8, 0.3.9 and 0.4.6) do not funtion with the message "Failed to enable WPA in the driver.". At boot time, following messages are seen from the kernel (using dmesg): ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ... eth1 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver ! The previous kernel (2.6.13-1.1532_FC4) had a functioning stock ipw2100 driver installed. The module in the new kernel, 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4, has obviously not survived the changes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kerne-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to kernel 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 2. See "dmesg" output 3. Try run wpa_supplicant Actual Results: No wireless communication Expected Results: Completed WPA handshake. Additional info: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad T42p with ipw2100 wireless card.
The fedora-netdev kernels are available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fedora-netdev/ Please give those a try and post the results here...thanks!
Ok, just tried: [root@ford ~]# uname -a Linux ford.gud.mjna.net 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.netdev.3 #1 Tue Nov 29 21:02:32 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux It is successfull with wpa_supplicant 0.4.6 and driver wext. Older 0.3.x do not function, but that is no problem. This solves the problem for me. Thanks very much. -- Greetings Bertho
I'm going to close this as fixed upstream. I can't be sure when it will be in the official Fedora kernels, but it should remain in Fedora-netdev until then.