Comment 70 for bug 207446

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Geert (geert-willems) wrote :

I'm havin the same problem:IPN2220 with ndiswrapper.

In my case this is on an older Acer Aspire 1360 which I want to give to a family member.
Installed Intrepid, then ndiswrapper + drivers from Acer Support.
The result was I could see the wireless networks, but not to WPA2 encrypted ones.
I also tried 7.10, and even with wicd, but nothing helped.

As this was kind of a deal-breaker, I ended up installing winXP again after 2 days of tweaking. But after installing all the necessary drivers from the Acer Support site, I _still_ could not logon to the protected networks, pointing towards a driver issue.

Via Windows Update, I could however update the driver and I was logged on in no time :-).
Unfortunately, I do not have the time anymore to reinstall ubuntu again, but I have a feeling these new drivers could also solve the WPA2 problem under Ubuntu.

For people who are in a similar situation and used the original Acer drivers together with ndiswrapper:
- the Acer driver (2.10.03.2004) which did not work with WPA2
  @ ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_1360/driver/Acer%20IPN2220%20Wireless%20LAN%20Card%20NDIS%20Miniport%20Driver%202.10.03.2004.zip

- a newer driver (3.07.02.2005) that does work with WPA2 (at least on WinXP)
  @ http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?s=4272d582eddeb21b6bdcd541dba82e09&showtopic=7172&pid=101436&st=0