Bug 144493 - kernel 2.6.13 as shipped causes fatal lockup with ipw2100 and LEAP
Summary: kernel 2.6.13 as shipped causes fatal lockup with ipw2100 and LEAP
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Critical
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Reported: 2006-01-20 20:01 UTC by Jonathon Robison
Modified: 2006-01-20 20:11 UTC (History)
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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.