Bug#551579: Intel 5350 AGN (Echo Peak) refuses to associate with hardware accelerated encryption enabled

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:44:39PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote:
> 
> I have firmware-iwlwifi version 0.18 installed. The above fix actually
> doesn't work for me reliably. I still can't associate with a lot of
> unprotected wireless networks. This is what dmesg shows me:
> 
> [  239.024909] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> 
> [  239.055047] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1a:1e:91:51:41 try 1
> 
> [  239.062981] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1a:1e:91:51:21 try 1
> 
> [  239.260567] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1a:1e:91:51:21 try 2
> 
> [  239.460568] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1a:1e:91:51:21 try 3
> 
> [  239.660101] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1a:1e:91:51:21 timed out
> 
> wlan0 never becomes "ready".
> 
> This isn't a signal strength problem, I still get this when I'm next to
> the router.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to better diagnose the problem? This problem
> wasn't around on WPA protected networks that I've connected to before.

do you use wpa_supplicant, if not please try?