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
Posted in: Kernel, Networking
