WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian
Wireless on Linux sucks. It seems everytime one little bit in the chain of programs, firmware and drivers changes I lose WPA capabilities. In fact currently Debian, IPW2000 and wpa_supplicent don’t work together, and apparently this happens on a number of other distributions.
I have got it working, but I used a custom 2.6.12 Kernel (the debian one doesn’t quite agree with all the stuff on my laptop), and compiled and installed ieee80211-1.0.2 from source, then compiled ipw2200-1.0.6 from source and it works! Well for now. Just in case its important the version of WPA_Supplicant I’m running is 0.4.6.
Time to see how long it lasts this time……..
(Oh and by it works means that most of the time it loads in the right order and works – sometime it loads in the wrong order so it ends up been eth2 and not eth1, other times I need to remove and re-add the ipw2200 module for things to work)
January 9, 2006
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robert · 
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Posted in: Kernel, Networking
