On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:39:33AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Has anyone managed to get the IPW2200BG driver from ATRPMS to > work with wpa_supplicant? Also should we even be trying to load > a different kernel module for ipw2200 since it is already > in the 1.1398 kernel? I notice that the kernel installs... > > /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.ko > > while the ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-1.0.0-24.rhfc4.at installs... > > /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw/ipw2200.ko > > I am assuming the atrpm one is loaded since the ieee80211 modules have > been loaded as well. However I don't see an ieee80211_crypt_wpa but > only an ieee80211_crypt_wep. Does this imply that the atrpm driver is too > old itself and I need a newer one? It reports itself as 1.0.0 and I notice > the ipw2200 driver site speaks of a 1.0.6 driver as being the current > release. The current *stable* release is 1.0.0, the 1.0.x (x!=0) releases are development releases. As such packages labeled as developement/testing etc. usually land in ATrpms testing or bleeding section. So if you want to go beyond 1.0.0 at ATrpms enable the testing repo. > Lastly would it be better to try to disable the ipw2200 driver from > loading (not sure how to do that either) and install ndiswrapper and > the windows ipw2200 drivers instead. No. > Jack > ps I assumed I needed to install the ipw2200 firmware rpm as well. It > is beyond me why there isn't an install dependency on that rpm in the > ipw2200-kmdl rpm. But there is! Try rpm -qR on you ipw2200-kmdl-* package. > Wireless on Linux certainly is pure hell at the moment. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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