Comment 11 for bug 66696

Confirmed here with Ubuntu 6.10.

Hopefully this will save others from wasting hours or days trying to establish a WPA connection.

$uname -rv
2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006

This affects both Sony Vaio PCG-SRX41P and PCG-SRX51P/B with integrated Orinoco Mini PCI Card (on CardBus controller).

$ pccardctl ident
Socket 0:
  no product info available
Socket 1:
  product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)

$ sudo lshw
    description: Notebook
    product: PCG-SRX41P(GB)
    vendor: Sony Corporation
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
          physical id: 0
          version: R0232U2 (01/24/03 )
          size: 114KB
          capacity: 448KB
          capabilities: pci pcmcia pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ieee1394boot smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot

           *-pcmcia:1
                description: CardBus bridge
                product: PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
                vendor: Texas Instruments
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci@01:05.0
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus
                resources: iomemory:f4103000-f4103fff irq:9
              *-network
                   description: WaveLAN/IEEE
                   product: Version 01.01
                   vendor: Lucent Technologies
                   physical id: 0
                   slot: Socket 1
                   resources: irq:9

   *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: eth1
       serial: 00:02:2d:45:ff:72
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15rc3 firmware=Lucent/Agere 6.16 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b