The connection can be established wether with or without WPA. But it's not reliable, i.e. the interface is going up for a few seconds and then down and up again... It's impossible to do any rsync, but web browsing, scp are possible, tough you must be very, very patient when transferring files. /etc/conf.d/net: modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_eth1="-dd -Dwext -ieth1" associate_timeout_eth1=60 config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 network={ ssid="reseau" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=WPA-EAP identity="identity" password="********" phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2" ca_cert="/etc/cert/cert.pem" ca_cert2="/etc/cert/cert.pem" } network={ ssid="reseau2" key_mgmt=NONE } eix ipw2200 ouput: * net-wireless/ipw2200 Available versions: 1.1.2-r1 1.1.3 Installed: 1.1.3 Homepage: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters * net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware Available versions: 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.0 Installed: 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.0 Homepage: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters emerge --info output: Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" LANG="fr_CH" LC_ALL="fr_CH" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3 -l3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd apache2 arts artswrappersuid athena auctex avi bash-completion bdf bitmap-fonts boost bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia clamav cli cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbm dbus dga directfb dlloader dmx dnd dri dv dvd dvdread effects emacs emboss encode fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freewnn gecko-sdk ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac glut gmp gnome gnuplot gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq idn imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 inkjar irda isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdexdeltas lcms ldap leim libcaca libg++ libwww lids live lzo lzw mad md5sum memlimit menubar mime mjpeg mmx mng moznocompose moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses neXt netcdf nls noplugin nptl nsplugin odbc ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl pic plotutils plugin png pnp ppds pppd qhull qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sasl sdl session slp smime sms sndfile socks5 sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg svga sysfs tcltk tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd vidix vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xface xgetdefault xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xmms xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics input_devices_void kernel_linux linguas_fr userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What version of wpa_supplicant?
(In reply to comment #1) Sorry, I should have mentionned it in the first post. I tried with wpa_supplicant 0.4.9 and 0.5.4 and I did not see any visible difference between them.
Well, the fact that it's not reliable isn't really a Gentoo problem as wpa_supplicant or the driver is thinking that the link to the AP has been lost. You may be seeing this more with Gentoo as AFAIK we're the only distro that brings the interface configuration down when the link is lost. I advise that you take your issue upstream.
