wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA)

Hi!

wpa_supplicant log of failing session available upon request.

It looks like you reverted the WE-21 stuff. Is your wireless-tools
package up to date?

Well, that's the latest I get under FC5:

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wireless-tools
wireless-tools-28-0.pre13.5.1

That's too old, the cutoff is 27-pre15.

but indeed (-git11 minus the reverts) iwconfig says

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ iwconfig eth1
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 21
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...

That's exactly the point of this warning (some distro like to
kill it), I think it spells pretty clearly what's wrong. Don't say I
did not warn you...

Well... we are trying to have stable abi here. Breaking older wireless
tools randomly is *not* okay in the middle of stable series.

If you have suggestions about either upgrading wireless-tools
from a non-FC5 repository or narrowing down the reverts, I'm
up for giving them a go :)

If you run a custom kernel, I think you won't see any problems
running a custom version of Wireless Tools. They are available on my
web site, pretty easy to install, and have minimal

No. Kernel abi is stable in 2.6.x.
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