No WPA on Ubuntu feisty with precompiled hostap_pci

[Tony Espy]

Malte Cornils wrote:
> I tried setting up WPA for a friend of mine via a remote debugging session. He 
> has a 
> 
> 00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset 
> (rev 01)
> 
> 0280: 1260:3873
> 
> built-in card.
> 
> wpa_supplicant does not want to associate:

> [ 7593.068000] hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
> [ 7593.068000] wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
> [ 7593.280000] prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
> [ 7593.280000] wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
> [ 7593.284000] wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
> [ 7593.284000] wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9

i think your problem is that the STA firmware you're using doesn't 
support WPA.  you need to upgrade it to v1.7.4.

here's a link with instructions on how to do this:

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/

ciao,
/tony