WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian 2
Yes once again I have to go through the pain of WPA/IPW2200/Debian/Kernel problems. Given that I have a laptop I wanted more laptop like features on my system – so I kernel upgrade was needed.
Currently using:
Kernel 2.6.14
-Wireless Extension v19.
Debian Etch + Extra apt sources
wpa_supplicant v0.4.7
Wireless-Tools version 28
The problem this time is that I needed to change some of the options for wpa_supplicant. No longer does it work with the ipw drivers but the wext drivers
/etc/default/wpasupplicant now reads:
ENABLED=1
OPTIONS=” -D wext -ddd -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf”
It works for now, but a new kernel compile is needed as the laptop doesn’t powerdown on shutdown at present. So may be yet another upgrade needed to get wireless working again.
April 15, 2006
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robert · 
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Posted in: Kernel, Networking
