Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

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

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

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