[ltp] Ubuntu 6.06 - 2200BG no association

Andrew Barr linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:49:25 -0400


On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:34 -0400, Bert Haskins wrote:
> In an attempt to get away from the startup !@#$ two ethernet cards message
> I just purchased a 2200BG wireless card to replace my Atheros internal card.
> It does get rid of the message but while running wpasupplicant I get a
> "ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported"
> message and it fails to associate with my ap.
> The first line of iwconfig is
> eth1 unassociated ESSID: "myssid"
> It does see the Access point with the correct address.
> What am I missing?

Recent versions of the ipw drivers use the standard 'wext' driver in
wpa_supplicant. I don't know if the legacy ioctls are there anymore,
especially if you are using the version from the mainline kernel.

> Thanks,
>   Bert
> 
> >  
> >
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