wpa_passphrase is bugged: so If you have generate your psk key with it, the
passphrase entered is wrong, and the connection is rejected.
I generated the psk key from my essid and my passphrase with another tool,
on the internet (not secure but it was to check it) : the wifi connection runs
Changing source package from metapackage to real package.
** Changed in: linux-backports-modules-2.6.27 (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: linux-lpia-meta = linux-backports-modules-2.6.27
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Atheros card works with neiher ath5k nor madwifi since Intrepid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294399
You
I have an Aspire One (AR2425 chip), and *was* experiencing this
occasionally - but not since upgrading to the 2.6.27-10 / -11 kernel and
linux-backports-modules from intrepid-proposed. I hesitate to say
fixed, since I could never reproduce reliably, but it seems worth a
try for other people
Initially I was able to get the card working again with madwifi and a
self-compiled version of wpasupplicant, though it showed a rather bad
performance (the rate often dropped to 1 MBit for a link that usually does 54
MBit).
Since 2.6.28-rc4 the card runs quite okay with the ath5k module - I
