[CentOS] Kernel 2.6.9.42 (.0 and .0.2) Wireless Problems

Thu Aug 24 10:45:57 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 7:10pm, Ben Mohilef wrote

> WPA-2 (WPA Enterprise) fails with the new kernel(s) using ndiswrapper
> and wpa_supplicant. I haven't tried other authentication modes because
> that entails changes in the wireless setup which I am loathe to make right
> now. (It's a Broadcom mini pci card, so I have to use ndiswrapper with this
> Dell laptop. Bummer!).
>
> Rebuilding the newest wpa_supplicant rpm from the FC5 source rpm's and
> the latest and greatest ndiswrapper from tarball does not help. The old
> kernel still connects nicely and the new kernel still refuses to authenticate to
> the radius. Everything else is happy with the radius. Running the -dd mode
> on wpa_supplicant gives me a lot of data which seems to point to an
> inability to process key data with the new kernel.
>
> Has anyone gotten the ndiswrapper/wpa_supplicant combination to work on
> a fully updated RH EL 4.4 system? Anyone with similar issues on the new
> kernel?

This thread on nahant-list may help...

https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2006-August/msg00162.html

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University