2.6.17-1.2139 and my wireless card won't work again :-)

[Knute Johnson]

I updated my kernel and now my wireless card won't work.  I have a 
Linksys WPC54GS card and have been using ndiswrapper and 
wpa_supplicant with no problems.  Well not exactly, the last couple 
of kernels required me to use an older version of ndiswrapper, 1.14.  
Other than that it worked great.  Now with 2.6.17-1.2139 I can't get 
it to work at all.  The interesting thing is that the system-config-
network program sees the card now and it never did before.  It 
doesn't appear to support WPA however so I would like to use 
ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.  wpa_supplicant won't load now and 
reports:

Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl [SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device

This is new to this kernel version.

Anybody got one of these cards working?

Thanks,

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/30/06, Knute Johnson  wrote:
> I updated my kernel and now my wireless card won't work.  I have a
> Linksys WPC54GS card and have been using ndiswrapper and
> wpa_supplicant with no problems.  Well not exactly, the last couple
> of kernels required me to use an older version of ndiswrapper, 1.14.
> Other than that it worked great.  Now with 2.6.17-1.2139 I can't get
> it to work at all.  The interesting thing is that the system-config-
> network program sees the card now and it never did before.  It
> doesn't appear to support WPA however so I would like to use
> ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.  wpa_supplicant won't load now and
> reports:
>
> Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl [SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
>
> This is new to this kernel version.
>
> Anybody got one of these cards working?

I don't have that specific card, but I too couldn't get my wifi card
to work with ndiswrapper-1.18 and that kernel.  Falling back to the
previous kernel, everything worked again.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Knute Johnson  wrote:
> > I updated my kernel and now my wireless card won't work.  I have a
> > Linksys WPC54GS card and have been using ndiswrapper and
> > wpa_supplicant with no problems.  Well not exactly, the last couple
> > of kernels required me to use an older version of ndiswrapper, 1.14.
> > Other than that it worked great.  Now with 2.6.17-1.2139 I can't get
> > it to work at all.  The interesting thing is that the system-config-
> > network program sees the card now and it never did before.  It
> > doesn't appear to support WPA however so I would like to use
> > ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.  wpa_supplicant won't load now and
> > reports:
> >
> > Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl [SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
> >
> > This is new to this kernel version.
> >
> > Anybody got one of these cards working?
>
> I don't have that specific card, but I too couldn't get my wifi card
> to work with ndiswrapper-1.18 and that kernel.  Falling back to the
> previous kernel, everything worked again.

One thing to try is installing the initscripts RPM in updates-testing.