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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: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 -- orinoco_cs doesn't support WPA https://launchpad.net/bugs/66696 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs