[ipw3945-devel] [ltp] Problems with ipw3945 & wpa_supplicant (Thinkpad z61m - 9450-HAG)

Zhu Yi linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:57:58 +0800


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:44 +0000, Hamish wrote:
> Anyway... I've found WHY it was failing... the ieee tkip module can't
> access 
> the arc4 algorithm api... Now since arc4 is loaded (And I've tred
> loading 
> tkip then ar4, and arc4 then tkip) I haven't found why tkip is
> broken..

Some users report the new crypto manager in 2.6.19 and above kernels has
problems to load the ecb crypto modules (i.e. arc4.ko). I didn't look at
it though. The known workaround is to compile the crypto manager
(cryptomgr.ko) as module (vs. built into kernel).

Thanks,
-yi