Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Shawn Starr]

With WPA2? I have to confirm if things are still broken with ipw2200 1.1.4. I wish this was sorted out. Really, the developers seem to have vanished afaik.

----- Original Message ----
From: Alessandro Suardi 
To: Shawn Starr 
Cc: linux-kernel
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 5:08:21 PM
Subject: Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

On 11/12/06, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:
> I would like to know when the Intel people working on the ipw2200 will merge
> 1.2.0 into vanilla? If it's not in vanilla is this present in akpm's -mm
> tree?
>
> The version in vanilla right now doesn't work with WPA and doesn't work with
> the newst firmware.

I'm writing this email on a VPN link over a WPA-enabled
 connection on my ipw2200 wifi card, FC6-uptodate
 with 2.6.19-rc5-git2:

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ dmesg | grep -i ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.4kmpr
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[asuardi@sandman ~]$ ps ax| grep wpa
 2852 ?        Ss     0:00 wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -ieth1 -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 4816 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep wpa
[asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant-0.4.9-1.fc6
[asuardi@sandman ~]$ uname -a
Linux sandman 2.6.19-rc5-git2 #2 Thu Nov 9 20:05:41 CET 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

What combo isn't working for you ?

> Are there plans to change the ipw cards to use the new softmac subsystem?

--alessandro

"...when I get it, I _get_ it"

     (Lara Eidemiller)

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Mark Lord]

Shawn Starr wrote:
> With WPA2? I have to confirm if things are still broken with ipw2200 1.1.4. I wish this was sorted out. Really, the developers seem to have vanished afaik.

I'm using WPA2 CCMP+CCMP(AES) with 2.6.18.  No problems.

-ml

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Alessandro Suardi]

On 11/13/06, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> Shawn Starr wrote:
> > With WPA2? I have to confirm if things are still broken with ipw2200 1.1.4. I wish this was sorted out. Really, the developers seem to have vanished afaik.
>
> I'm using WPA2 CCMP+CCMP(AES) with 2.6.18.  No problems.

WPA1+TKIP in my case.

--alessandro

"...when I get it, I _get_ it"

     (Lara Eidemiller)

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Shawn Starr]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 7:32 am, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> > Shawn Starr wrote:
> > > With WPA2? I have to confirm if things are still broken with ipw2200
> > > 1.1.4. I wish this was sorted out. Really, the developers seem to have
> > > vanished afaik.
> >
> > I'm using WPA2 CCMP+CCMP(AES) with 2.6.18.  No problems.
>
> WPA1+TKIP in my case.
>
> --alessandro
>
> "...when I get it, I _get_ it"
>
>      (Lara Eidemiller)

Looks good, 2.6.19-rc6 seems ok. I dont need to download the tarballs now 
since the version is now 1.1.4 vs 1.1.2 in ipw2200.sf.net.  

Shawn.

ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Shawn Starr]

I would like to know when the Intel people working on the ipw2200 will merge 
1.2.0 into vanilla? If it's not in vanilla is this present in akpm's -mm 
tree?

The version in vanilla right now doesn't work with WPA and doesn't work with 
the newst firmware.  

Are there plans to change the ipw cards to use the new softmac subsystem? 

Thanks,
Shawn.

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Alessandro Suardi]

On 11/12/06, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:
> I would like to know when the Intel people working on the ipw2200 will merge
> 1.2.0 into vanilla? If it's not in vanilla is this present in akpm's -mm
> tree?
>
> The version in vanilla right now doesn't work with WPA and doesn't work with
> the newst firmware.

I'm writing this email on a VPN link over a WPA-enabled
 connection on my ipw2200 wifi card, FC6-uptodate
 with 2.6.19-rc5-git2:

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ dmesg | grep -i ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.4kmpr
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[asuardi@sandman ~]$ ps ax| grep wpa
 2852 ?        Ss     0:00 wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -ieth1 -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 4816 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep wpa
[asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant-0.4.9-1.fc6
[asuardi@sandman ~]$ uname -a
Linux sandman 2.6.19-rc5-git2 #2 Thu Nov 9 20:05:41 CET 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

What combo isn't working for you ?

> Are there plans to change the ipw cards to use the new softmac subsystem?

--alessandro

"...when I get it, I _get_ it"

     (Lara Eidemiller)

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

[Mark Lord]

There seem to be many implementations of WPA, including:

   tkip+tkip
   tkip+ccmp
   ccmp+ccmp
   ccmp+tkip

Perhaps only some modes are working, and some are not?
The "wpa_cli" utility will show which combo is in use
(the "status" subcommand), and will also show what is happening
if you run it while wpa_supplicant is trying to connect.

My own ipw2200 here, on 2.6.18, seems to work with all of the
WPA/WPA2 combinations that my two APs have tried, including
three of the above four scenarios.

But I have updated to  v0.5.5 of the wpa_supplicant daemon for this,
and maybe that's the problem here -- daemon too old/buggy?

Cheers