wpa_supplicant problem after kernel upgrade

[engage]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 11:38 am, engage wrote:
>On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:15 am, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>>On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:07:55PM -0600, engage wrote:
>>> I just installed kernel 2.6.13.4. The drivers for ipw2200 (1.0.8) and
>>> ieee80211 (1.1.6) are loaded and iwconfig ?shows wlan0. Firmware 2.4 was
>>> installed in the appropriate firmware directory. I was using
>>> wpa_supplicant-0.3.9 prior to the kernel upgrade. I tried recompiling (no
>>> errors) and installing but I still cannot connect to my AP. So I tried
>>> upgrading to wpa_supplicant-0.4.5. It compiled & installed OK but running
>>> wpa_supplicant still produces:
>>>
>>> ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
>>
>>You need to use -D wext instead of -D ipw when running a WE-18 enabled
>>kernel (2.6.13+).
>
>I changed the command to -D wext and received "unsupported driver wext". I
>tried -Dwext (without the space) and got the same thing. Also, I didn't see
>any reference to the -e and -x commands in the readme for the command line
>options for wpa_supplicant.
>
>I don't know if the following is an issue (part of output from running
>iwconfig):
>
>Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 18 of
> Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17. Some
> things may be broken...
>
>I tried to uninstall the wireless-tools package with urpme so that I could
>install the latest tarball but I got a message that would break my system so
>I left things as is.
>
>Originally, this was Mandriva 2005LE.
>
>

Duhhh, wext is a driver. OK, I modified .config and recompiled and it works 
now. Thanks for the help.