ipw2200bg and wpa_supplicant

[Uno Engborg]

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. 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.
>               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. Wireless on Linux certainly is pure hell at the moment.
>
>  
>
I had some problems with the ip2200 driver as well, it turned out that 
the installed firmware
version was too old for the 1.0.6 driver.  To fix it I downloaded the 
latest version from
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php and unpacked it into 
/lib/firmware.
Perhaps you have some similar problem. Unfortunately I can't check what 
kernel/driver/firmware
versions I used, as the laptop I installed it on have been stolen.

Regards
Uno Engborg