Subject: Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:16:25 -0800

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly
> related problems:
> 
> a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200
> b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports:
> 
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>     SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

Do you have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled?  If not, please do as that
will keep you from having to change any userspace code.

thanks,

greg k-h