Bug 144493

Summary:	kernel 2.6.13 as shipped causes fatal lockup with ipw2100 and LEAP
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Jonathon Robison 2006-01-20 20:01:42 UTC

As shipped, (and as updated), the version of ipw2100 driver and ieee80211 module will fail when used for a wpa_supplicant attempt at LEAP authentication. The failure is a total system lockup! when run automatically during boot, occassional lockup when run from command line (wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -Dwext etc. etc.)

I tried manually compiling and installing 1.1.8 of ieee80211 and 1.1.4 of ipw2100, but they wouldn't compile for me. (This were the versions suggested by James Ketrenos, who runs the Intel ipw project).

I then used apt-get, with "kernel-of-the-day" in the sources.list, to install kernel 2.6.16-rc1-20060119183513-default.  Now the wireless works with LEAP.  (It did drop the connection, I think, after a little while of inactivity - I'll have to do more testing.).

Users should not have to use a kotd to use LEAP! Can we get an updated regular kernel with ieee80211 v1.1.8 and ipw2100 v1.1.4?

Comment 1 Chris L Mason 2006-01-20 20:11:06 UTC

Sorry, the fix for this will only be in the 10.1 kernels.  Thanks for trying the updated kernel though.