Hi, when i use the ipw2100 module version 0.39 i dont get a link and linkquality. The Mac of my Accesspoint is correct and i automatically got it. With my Netgearcard there is no problem. eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"net4you" Nickname:"ipw2100" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427GHz Access Point: 00:C0:02:98:12:22 Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry:on RTS thr=2304 B Fragment thr:2332 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0/100 Signal level:-61 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I know this module is still buggy and under develope. I just will give a little feedback. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge ipw2100 2.modprobe ipw2100 3.iwconfig in scope of your net Actual Results: Cant get a netlink Expected Results: link to my accesspoint Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.4-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.4 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo rsync://rsync.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 aalib acpi alsa arts autofs avi berkdb cdr cgi crypt cups dga encode esd ethereal fbcon ffmpeg foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 irda irmc java javascript jpeg kde lcd ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls oav oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang snmp socks5 spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd transcode transparent-proxy truetype unicode usb vim-with-x wavelan wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Okay, marking this as WONTFIX, any specifics of the ipw2100 driver like this should definitely go to either the ipw2100-devel mailinglist (very helpful) or to the ipw2100 bug tracker. 0.40pre2 might fix this, i'm not putting those versions into portage though, as they have major WEP mucking that's being ironned out.
