Because the issue was fixed in Intrepid as far as I know (at least for me,
newer versions of iwl work without any issues). It was marked as "Fix
Released" some 6 months ago in May. Then someone changed it to "Won't Fix"
without any reason.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Duncan Lithgow
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Since the iwl3945 driver does not offer the same functionality as the
> (depreciated) ipw3945, please explain why this is marked as 'won't fix'
>
> --
> [hardy] iwl3945/iwl4965 + wpasupplicant fails to connect to university
> network. regression from gutsy (ipw3945+wpasupplicant)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220640
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> [hardy] iwl3945/iwl4965 + wpasupplicant fails to connect to university
> network. regression from gutsy (ipw3945+wpasupplicant) which worked fine.
>
> wpa_supplicant.conf :
>
> network={
> ssid="MAASnet"
> key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
> wep_key0=67521641120849428492308341
> phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
> identity="" #fill in
> password="" #fill in
> }
>
> Here's a part of the output from running ""sudo wpa_supplicant
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -D wext -d"" which might
> be relevant :
>
> EAPOL: Setting dynamic WEP key: unicast keyidx 3 len 13
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=1 key_idx=3 set_tx=128 seq_len=0 key_len=13
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
> Driver did not support SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
> EAPOL: Failed to set WEP key to the  driver.
>
> I'ts probably not a microcode error because I followed :
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=fw_error_report and I'm not seeing
> "Microcode SW error detected" in my dmesg.
>
> People with similar issues (my university uses different network settings
> and I'm getting different error messages) :
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/209920
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/199275/
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/207446
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6281/
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4695238&postcount=14
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4754224&postcount=15
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=753200
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4747104&postcount=4
>
> Similar but different upstream bugs (my university uses different network
> settings and I'm getting different error messages) :
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1507
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1522
>
> upstream bug with similar error messages (ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid
> argument) but different network settings :
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1339
>
> I've seen the same problem (not being able to connect to this particular
> network) with iwl4965 (laptop of someone else).
>
>


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