Hello.
A few hours ago I tried to upgrade from 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 to
2.6.27-gentoo-r7.
As expected, WLAN stopped working due to missing modules. I remerged
madwifi-hal and madwifi-hal-tools contained in the overlay from allenjb
to get the needed kernel modules. Afterwards remerged wpa_supplicant.
But WLAN still did not work.
So I booted to my prevoius kernel and found WLAN non functional there too.
I switched the link /usr/src/linux back to the previous kernel and tried
to remerge madwifi-hal, the tools and wpa_supplicant again.
Now the modules do correctly (I suppose) create the needed devices and
the init scripts pull the interface up. But the boot messages complain
about not having set WEP-Keys, which are set in the config file residing
at /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. That results in my WLAN is
associated to an unsecured access point in my area.
Since I did not touch the config files, I wondered if the standard
location of config files regarding wpa_supplicant moved, but could not
find anything related.
I tried wpa_cli to get some information, but it can't connect to
wpa_supplicant.
So I tried to run wpa_supplicant manually: wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi
-iwifi0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not supported
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not supported
Failed to initialize driver interface
Speicherzugriffsfehler
Now I am stuck. Any suggestions how to get WLAN back working?
Jan
