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Bug#593243: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: WPA2 is not available anymore with rt2860sta (open networks work), upstream driver works too



On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:59 +0200, Médéric RIBREUX wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-20
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Since linux-2.6.32-18, the rt2860sta wifi driver is not able to
> associate against WPA/WPA2 AP with wpa_supplicant.
> 
> I guess that the problem is linked to bug #574766.

Perhaps.  The rt2860sta driver in 2.6.32-18 actually comes from Linux
2.6.34.  I made this change because there have been many bug fixes and
clean-ups and it was impractical to pick out individual bug fixes.

> After the update from linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-17 to 2.6.32-18,
> the wpa stops working (nothing has been changed in the config files).
> It seems that wpa_supplicant can't associate with the AP even if its
> configuration is good. With open network, it works. This does not
> comes from a problem of binary firmware as linux-ralink is installed
> on my computer.
> 
> Since the failure, the only thing related to wifi that has changed on
> my system is the kernel and its modules. All the other packets
> (wpasupplicant, wireless-tools, firmware-ralink) haven't been modified
> or updated.
> 
> I tried to use the rt2860-source package but it won't compile at all !

Indeed, that package is no longer maintained.

>  Then, as a workaround, I manually compiled the upstream driver
> (v2.4.0) and the WPA connexion with wpa_supplicant works really well.
> I tried to use the sid version of the image (2.6.32-20) but it doesn't
> work too.

Please can you test the version in experimental
(linux-image-2.6.35-trunk-686 version 2.6.35-1~experimental.1)?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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