I took the ipw failure with wpasupplicant upstream (http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=83)
The author's response was that Linux kernel 2.6.14 has Wireless Extension 19 (>18, which had WPA added), and since ipw2200 1.0.8 uses this new version, then the correct action with wpasupplicant (0.4.6) is to used -D wext rather than -D ipw. wext is wpasupplicant's generic driver which will work with any device driver compliant with WE 18 (or higher). wpasupplicant's ipw is the old legacy driver, only to be used with older ipw2200 (or ipw2100) versions. So specify "-D wext" instead of "-D ipw" along with the other wpa_supplicant options in /etc/default/wpasupplicant or /etc/wpasupplicant.conf, and ipw wireless should work OK with the 2.6.14 kernel. For the record, on my system I also seem to need to use ap_scan=1, not ap_scan=0, in /etc/wpasupplicant.conf. This use of -D wext instead of -D ipw on 2.6.14 is sufficiently non-intuitive that I think it needs to be mentioned in README.Debian, if not elsewhere. I'll do the NMU myself if noone else beats me to it. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
