wpa and fc6/7

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 08 December 2006 at 22:50, Michel Salim wrote:
> 2006/12/7, David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>:
> >On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:31 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I had problems with it for the first 2 weeks after the release (WPA
> >> would not work with my ipw3945 etc) . but what is currently on my
> >> system is working great. [It was kind of interesting.. it started
> >> working the day before Thanksgiving and has worked since then.]
> >
> >What I've found with ipw3945 is that even though you can build it
> >against the in-kernel IEEE80211 stack (1.1.13), WPA doesn't work worth a
> >darn.  If you build it against the latest stack (1.2.15), everything
> >works quite well.  It would be real nice if Intel would get rid of the
> >ipw3945d daemon - which apparently they are in the process of doing -
> >just to make it so I don't have to have any hack-arounds for it.
> >
> How much difference did it make? I ended up turning off WPA on my
> wireless router because the router would freeze every few hours. The
> only problem I noticed on the laptop side is that it takes a long time
> to acquire a network address using DHCP, and sometimes I have to tell
> NetworkManager to reconnect several times.
> 
> This is using freshrpms' ipw3945, which has a small patch that (as I
> understand it) sets the API version to 1.1.13 instead of 1.1.14

Works for me using unpatched ipw3945-1.1.2 with small patches to make it
build on current FC6 kernel, taken from ipw3945 bugzilla:
http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1155
http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1151

Package is on its way into Livna.

Regards,
R.

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