[Bug 496093] Re: [lucid] rt2860 frequently fails to connect to mixed mode WPA/WPA2 secured wireless networks

[jh]

Yet another view: Asus EeePC 901

rt2860sta was fine on Karmic, including hidden ESSID and WPA/WPA2

on Lucid, 2.6.32-21 or 2.6.32-22, the ESSID must be broadcast and either
of WPA / WPA2 works, but not combined.

With the Ricardo Salveti kernel, or mainline ppa 2.6.33 / 2.6.34 lucid,
ESSID must be broadcast, combined WPA/WPA2 works, but there are
undesirable side effects, namely the machine will fail to resume from
suspend, or will fail to reboot / restart, requiring disconnection from
mains power and removal of the battery to even get back to the BIOS boot
screen. The standard Ubuntu kernels do not have this adverse affect.

For 2.6.32-22 (not not try -21), the vendor driver is can be manually
brought up, but is not recognised by g-n-m.

So for me, there is only one workaround: Ubuntu kernel, broadcast ESSID
and use only one of WPA or WPA2. An unfortunate regression. I hope any
potential fix is well tested on a good cross section of hardware.


-jh

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[lucid] rt2860 frequently fails to connect to mixed mode WPA/WPA2 secured wireless networks
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