Problem with ipw2200 and gentoo

Hello everybody,

Since a few days, it's almost impossible to use ipw2200 with WPA
encryption in gentoo. I use AES (CCMP) encryption and each time I get
the following message when net.eth1 is started:
    Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or
directory 

However, If I run the command    wpa_cli -i eth1 reassociate, the
association to the network occurs almost instantly. I just then have to
run dhclient manually to get an IP adress. The problem with such a
method is that the net.eth1 is not considered as started, so dependent
services like samba can't be started.  For your information, I use
wpa_supplicant 0.5.7, ieee80211 version 1.2.16 and ipw2200 version 1.2.1.

Does anybody knows any solution to this very annoying problem ?
Thanks in advance for your help,

François Valenduc

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