Bug#617694: general: rt2860sta reconnect fails wpa2 enterprise peap

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 617694 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-30
quit

Hey,

reydecopas wrote:

> When reconnect to a wpa2 enterprise peap wireless network the network-manager 
> doesn't get connection.
> The solution I have tested is: right click in network-manager, disable 
> wireless, modprobe -r rt2860sta, load the module again, and enable wireless
> in network-manager, then it works

Oh, sheesh, that definitely shouldn't be necessary.

So here's what we'll need in order to fix this:

Please try the newest kernel from squeeze, and attach output from
"reportbug -p linux-image-$(uname -r)" so we can get to know your
hardware better.

If it still exhibits the problem, please also try a 3.1.y kernel from
sid.  The only packages from outside squeeze you should need in order
to do this are the kernel image itself, initramfs-tools, and
linux-base.

Then, if the 3.x kernel exhibits the same trouble, we can work on
reporting this upstream[*].  And if it does not exhibit the same
trouble, we can try a few kernels halfway between from
http://snapshot.debian.org/ in order to find when the fix was
introduced, and then apply that patch to squeeze.

What do you think?  Thanks for reporting it, and good luck.

Regards,
Jonathan

[*] They will probably want a reproduction recipe using iwconfig or
iw, as described at
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs