When upgrading wpa_supplicant to 0.5.8, the wireless in this notebook won't associate any longer. First I suspected the ipw2200 driver to be the one responsible for the breakage, but after downgrading to wpa_supplicant-0.5.7 everything works perfectly fine again.
$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3_rc6 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-hardened-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-hardened-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha3 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:20:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -g -ggdb2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -g -ggdb2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect cvs distclean distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms sign splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.barfoo.org http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/gtk-doc /usr/kde/*/share/doc /usr/share/doc /usr/lib/debug" LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,now -Wl,--sort-common" MAKEOPTS="-j8" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/bugfixes /files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/hardened /files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/private /files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/mobile" SYNC="rsync://rsync.barfoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="berkdb crypt hardened midi ncurses no-old-linux nptl nptlonly offensive pam perl pic python readline ssl urandom x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 123533 [details] dmesg-2.6.20 dmesg of a normal (as in working) startup
Created attachment 123535 [details] dmesg-2.6.20-noworkie dmesg of a broken (as in not working) startup
The lines showing the "breakage" are: Jul 1 16:58:08 celsius ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command. Jul 1 16:58:18 celsius ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. Jul 1 16:58:18 celsius ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.
Reported upstream on Roy's request.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/103497 Does running `rmmod ipw2200` fix it for you?
Still valid with 1.0-r2?
