Re: Latest ipw2200 driver breaks when used with wpa_supplicant
On Thursday 30 June 2005 00.30, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> After upgrading to the 1.0.4 driver (and to the 2.3 firmware) for the
> ipw2200 in my Dell Inspiron, Kismet finally worked (yea!). However, when
> I tried to enable WPA by switching from waproamd to wpa_supplicant, my
> keyboard would lock up and I would see endless messages about "error
> detected in firmware".
>
> In case anybody else runs into this problem, the solution (for me and
> for several others on the ipw2200 bugzilla site) is to add "hwcrypto=0"
> to the options when the module is loaded. Then, things seem to work
> again.
>
> The problem I'm having *now*, though, is that I can't seem to add this
> option. Here's what I tried:
>
> o Created a file called /etc/modutils/ipw2200 with one line: "options
> ipw2200 hwcrypto=0" (without the quotes)
If I'm not mistaken then for 2.6 kernels you need to add the options
to /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.
Regards,
Zsolt
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