Re: 2.6.19-rc2 ipw2200 breakage with wpa_supplicant

[Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 21:33 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
> > Something changed between 2.6.18-mm1 and 2.6.19-rc2 to cause my laptop's 
> > ipw2200 to be unable to associate with the access point using 
> > NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant. I keep seeing this kind of thing over 
> > and over in the wpa_supplicant output:
> 
> It looks like the bad patch is this one. Reverting it makes it work 
> again. Either there's a bug in here or it's a change breaking working 
> userspace, either way, no good:
> 
> [PATCH] WE-21 for ipw2200
> 
> author	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
> 	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:01:40 +0000 (18:01 -0700)
> committer	John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> 	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:52:16 +0000 (16:52 -0400)
> commit	919ee6ddcd3fcff09dee90c11af17a802196ad1f
> tree	c45e35201d7a3f2c998fc316898f902fd85fdfd2
> parent	b978d0278c3a4c41bda806743c6ef5dca86b4c61
> 
> [PATCH] WE-21 for ipw2200
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This is a wpa_supplicant WE-21 incompatibility problem. Using iwconfig
directly works. Don't know if upgrading wpa_supplicant helps.

Thanks,
-yi