On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On 6/30/06, Knute Johnson <knute(a)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