Do NOT use firmware (at least from cafeugo) or modules for Broadcom wirless cards - you will experience much pain.

Read this ... please: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=463002

In short:

1. Blacklist el' bcm43xx
   
2. Install windows ( Read more... )

Finally got wpa encryption working on my laptop ... after lots of pain. It all boiled down to using generic driver (wext) instead of specific ipw2100/2200 (ipw) which was giving me nasty ioctl errors. Here's my kernel details:

$ uname -a
Linux techwood 2.6.14-kanotix-9 #1 PREEMPT Wed Dec 28 10:17:53 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
First you need to ( Read more... )