privacy mismatch problems

Hi, so a while ago, I was getting lots of errors like this:

May  7 09:18:58 [kernel] ipw2200: U ipw_best_network Network 'faceplant 
(00:15:e9:1c:16:60)' excluded because of privacy mismatch: off != on.

With these, I was unable to associate with my network. Occasionally, it 
would somehow become happy (rmmod/modprobe sometimes worked). However at 
some point, this became a total blocker and I was not able to get it 
working again.

I don't really understand the problem, but after poking around in the 
source a bit I found the code that's complaining in ipw_best_network:

    5750         /* Verify privacy compatability */
    5751 #if 0
    5752         if (((priv->capability & CAP_PRIVACY_ON) ? 1 : 0) !=
    5753             ((network->capability & WLAN_CAPABILITY_PRIVACY) ? 
1 : 0)) {
    5754                 IPW_DEBUG_ASSOC("Network '%s (" MAC_FMT ")' 
excluded "
    5755                                 "because of privacy mismatch: 
%s != %s.\n",
    5756                                 escape_essid(network->ssid, 
network->ssid_len),
    5757                                 MAC_ARG(network->bssid),
    5758                                 priv->capability & 
CAP_PRIVACY_ON ? "on" :
    5759                                 "off",
    5760                                 network->capability &
    5761                                 WLAN_CAPABILITY_PRIVACY ? "on" 
: "off");
    5762                 return 0;
    5763         }
    5764 #endif

I added the #if/#endif and rebuilt (as a very simple and blunt test) and 
things have been working quite fine since then. I've been running like 
this for a month or more now.

So, my question is this: is there some better way to control the 
"privacy" setting? I really don't expect that my "patch" is at all 
sensible, but it works for me (TM).

This is all running on gentoo on a dell xps laptop with a 2915 card.

ipw2200-1.1.2
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8
ieee80211-1.1.13-r1
kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r3

Thanks for any info.

Cheers,
Derek



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