2.6.17-1.2139 and my wireless card won't work again :-)
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sat Jul 1 06:47:47 UTC 2006
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Knute Johnson <knute at frazmtn.com> 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.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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