Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 9/29/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:40:29PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > On 9/29/06, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > >On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:25:53PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > >> Dell Latitude D610, FC5-latest, ipw2200 configured to associate
> > >> with a D-Link DSL-G604T (combo of router/ADSL modem/802.11g AP).
> > >>
> > >> 2.6.18-git8 (plus semaphore.h) is ok
> > >> -git9, -git10, -git11 fail to associate
> > >> -git11 with reverted wireless changes is ok
> > >>
> > >> Attaching diff of what I reverted in -git11 to make it work again.
> > >>
> > >> wpa_supplicant log of failing session available upon request.
> > >
> > >It looks like you reverted the WE-21 stuff.  Is your wireless-tools
> > >package up to date?
> >
> > Well, that's the latest I get under FC5:
> >
> > [asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wireless-tools
> > wireless-tools-28-0.pre13.5.1
>
>         That's too old, the cutoff is 27-pre15.

Are you sure ? For how I read it, 28-0.pre13.5.1 is more recent
 than 27-pre15, not older.

> > but indeed (-git11 minus the reverts) iwconfig says
> >
> > [asuardi@sandman ~]$ iwconfig eth1
> > Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 21
> > of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
> > Some things may be broken...
>
>         That's exactly the point of this warning (some distro like to
> kill it), I think it spells pretty clearly what's wrong. Don't say I
> did not warn you...

Oh, but I think I've seen these warnings forever in the last years ;)

> > If you have suggestions about either upgrading wireless-tools
> > from a non-FC5 repository or narrowing down the reverts, I'm
> > up for giving them a go :)
>
>         If you run a custom kernel, I think you won't see any problems
> running a custom version of Wireless Tools. They are available on my
> web site, pretty easy to install, and have minimal
> implications. Usually distro do no customisation of my tools.

Indeed - it's not a problem to me :)

However, I downloaded and built the wireless_tools.29.pre10.tar.gz
 sources from your pages and the problem is still there - minus the
 iwconfig warning... more precisely,

 -git8 works
 -git9 fails
 -git11 fails
 -git11 minus the reverts works, and says

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ iwconfig -v
iwconfig  Wireless-Tools version 29
          Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v21.

Kernel    Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v21.

eth1      Recommend Wireless Extension v18 or later,
          Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v21.

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ ldd /sbin/iwconfig
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f87000)
        libiw.so.29 => /lib/libiw.so.29 (0xb7f72000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x46b0d000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x469d8000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x469bb000)

So I guess there's an actual bug that doesn't depend on the
 wireless-tools. Or maybe it's wpa_supplicant that has to be
 upgraded ?

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5

>         On the other hand, FC6, which is in beta, contains already the
> proper version of the tools. I have been monitoring the various distro
> in the last few months before sending those WE-21 patches, and all
> major distro have WT-28 in the pipeline.

Even if so, wireless-tools would be the only package I have to
 build out of the FC5 distribution to keep up with the latest -git
 snapshot of the Torvalds kernel... I'm not especially troubled
 with this anyway. Perhaps you could push the Fedora folks to
 be a bit more up-to-date with wireless-tools in their current
 main version ?

>         Actually, you might be able to install the wireless-tools RPM
> of FC6 of FC-dev onto your FC5.

Still listening on how to further research the issue... many thanks
 in the meantime, ciao,

--alessandro

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