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Bug#692098: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi firmware does not connect to wpa2 wireless



On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 12:16 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 2012/11/2 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> 
> > Can you try using these commands (as root) to disable hardware
> > encryption for WPA:
> >
> >     rmmod iwlwifi
> >     modprobe iwlwifi swcrypto=1
> >
> > Also try connecting with 802.11g:
> >
> >     rmmod iwlwifi
> >     modprobe iwlwifi 11n_disable=1
> >
> > Do either or both of these configurations work?
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> 
> thanks for the solution Ben,
> 
> both works.

Well they are workarounds, not really solutions.

> my /etc/rc.local looks like below to get the wireless working on wpa
> encrypted network at my office:
> 
> rmmod iwlwifi
> modprobe iwlwifi swcrypto=1
> exit 0

It is better to put module options in a file under /etc/modprobe.d, as
described in the modprobe.conf manual page.

Ben.

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

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