Bug 231124

Summary:	ipw2200 wireless WEP connections do not work out of the box
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE) <mobile+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-07-07 23:57:03 UTC

IPW2200 does not work for me out of the box with 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 kernel.
At least not the connections that are WEP "encrypted", and I don't have any other types or free ones around me to try non-WEP.
It sees the ESSID's fine but fails to acquire an IP with NetworkManager.
It is workaround by adding hwcrypto=0 option to the ipw2200 module - then it works fine as in other distributions, but out of the box I'm left with a non-working Internet at GUADEC conference, having to mess with this for a day with an Ubuntu LiveCD (internet access for, well, ipw2200-firmware downloading, information seeking..), chrooting, listening to a BoF, rebooting, hearing some ubuntu start sounds out loud in the conference room from another reboot, et cetera :(

Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-07-07 23:57:41 UTC

I don't mean that other distributions are making this work with hwcrypto=0 - I haven't checked

Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-07-07 23:58:12 UTC

Note that I will have access to this hardware only until 15th July.

Comment 3 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-20 09:14:21 UTC

does this work for you on more recent kernels?