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

["Lonni J Friedman" <netllama gmail com>]

On 6/30/06, Knute Johnson <knute 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.

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