Wireless N, WPA and kernel 2.6.26 (amd .27)?

Partha Bagchi partha1b at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 15:23:01 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have seen some reports of connection problems when running laptops with iwl4965
>> wireless to Access Points running 802.11N when using WPA (WPA2) encryption
>> with kernel 2.6.26 (or 2.6.27). Apparently these problems came to light only
>> with these newer kernels and 2.6.25 ran successfully.
>>
>> Before deciding on whether to upgrade my wireless access points to newer
>> wireless N capable boxes I would appreciate hearing of any other user
>> experiences confirming whether anyone has been able to successfully connect
>> via WPA to a Wireless N access point with the newer series of kernels.
>>
>> If there have been problems in this regard then any useful pointers to
>> workarounds would be appreciated.
>>
>> I have been running the newer kernels to wireless G access points without
>> any problems at all but wireless N is quite new so the experiences of others
>> would be useful knowledge.
>
> I think the issue your talking about is covered in the following RHBZ
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457154
>
> Peter
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And this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465696. There
has been no response to this either.

Hope we can get N-routers (and my card ath9k) working with FC10.

Thanks,
Partha




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