On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 14:44 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:50:13PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:10:47PM +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > I just wiped my etch installation and replaced it with a fresh lenny > > > installation. The installer auto-detected my wifi card and used the > > > rt2500pci driver. > > > > > > By default it achieves: > > > - 1Mbps rate (as reported by iwconfig - I can only download at max. > > > ~20KBps) > > > - approx "50% link quality" > > > > > > When I manually set it to "rate 11M", the reported bit rate goes to 11M, > > > the real download speed improves by about 50% and the "link quality" > > > goes to about 70%, but it's still a far cry from what the card can > > > achieve. > > > > > > It works just fine using ndiswrapper... > > > > Has this been fixed in later kernels like the 2.6.30 from unstable or > > backports.org? There have been many changes since the Lenny kernel. > > It seems that in sid the driver does not work at all in WPA mode. Here's > the story: [...] > WPA: RX message 3 of 4-Way Handshake from 00:02:cf:6a:32:c8 (ver=2) > WPA: IE KeyData - hexdump(len=64): 30 14 01 00 00 0f ac 02 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 02 01 00 dd 26 00 0f ac 01 01 00 2c b0 71 b1 b4 3d 15 11 5e 69 ca 65 8d 8f 91 f0 73 c1 d7 25 e0 24 58 e9 44 c2 f3 c0 c9 30 79 5c dd 00 > WPA: Sending EAPOL-Key 4/4 > WPA: TX EAPOL-Key - hexdump(len=99): 01 03 00 5f 02 03 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 de 32 41 70 ef ea 9e 2f ce 1c ef b5 48 52 32 f8 00 00 > WPA: Installing PTK to the driver. > wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=3 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=6 key_len=16 > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Cannot allocate memory [...] This indicates that the mac80211 code was unable to set up the AES encryption/decryption state for WPA. Excluding the unlikely case that the system is really out of memory, this means that the 'aes' module is not available. Please try adding that to your installation image. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings DNRC Motto: I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.
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