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Bug#506223: I can confirm that



On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:36 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:50:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Indeed, loading aes_generic before running wpa_supplicant made it work
> just fine!  Does it make sense to file a bug against wpasupplicant
> asking for this to be turned into a more meaningful error message?

No, the kernel is returning the wrong error code.

You might consider filing a bug against debian-installer to request that
aes_generic (and any other crypto modules possibly needed for WPA) be
included.

> As for the card driver, it seems to work much better in 2.6.30, I was
> able to achieve sustained 7Mbps transfer which I think was as much as I
> ever managed to achieve on this network.
> 
> I guess this bug can be closed.

For squeeze/sid, yes.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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