Apparently, wpa_supplicant the way the driver is called and ipw2100 needs a patch to work correcly with this new interface. Without it, I fail to get WPA to work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. ortage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 6 2005, 12:01:38)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.8-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/fstab /etc/make.conf /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" LC_ALL="sv_SE" LINGUAS="sv en fr de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acl acpi adabas afs aim alsa apache2 arts atlas audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts blas bluetooth bonobo bzlib calendar cdb cdparanoia cdr cpdflib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbx dedicated dga dio directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif f77 fam fbcon fftw flac flatfile foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif ginac gmp gnokii gnome gnome2 gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib informix ingres inifile innodb iodbc ipv6 jabber jack java jpeg kde lcms ldap leim lesstif libedit libg++ libgda libwww lirc live mad maildir matroska mbox mcal mhash mikmod mmx mnogosearch motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msession msn mule mysql mythtv nas ncurses netcdf nis nls odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl plotutils png pnp posix ppds python qdbm qt quicktime readline real recode rtc ruby samba scanner sdl session shared simplexml slang slp snmp sockets speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb videos vorbis wmf wxwindows x86 xine xls xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo yaz zea zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_sv linguas_en linguas_fr linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 61766 [details] The patch from the ipw2100 site that does fix the problem The patch is also available from http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/patches/ipw2100-1.1.0-wpa_supplicant-0.4.x.patch
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93965 ***