CentOS - Aug 2006 - Kernel 2.6.9.42 (.0 and .0.2) Wireless Problems

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?

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

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University