Bug#790326: Driver Wext works but not nl80211

2015-07-01 Thread Samuel Smith
I have installed a wifi card from a T500 into my T61, the issues are still the same: wext works, but nl80211 does not. I could try booting the Wheezy live CD again with this card, but I don't see the point since it worked with the other card. Clearly since everything worked fine at work, somet

Bug#790326: Driver Wext works but not nl80211

2015-07-01 Thread Samuel Smith
Just some more info. I took the t61 laptop to work, and using wpa_supplicant I was able to connect to the wirless here using either wext or nl80211. This points to an issue with my home router which is a netgear WG102 with an atheros chip: http://support.netgear.com/product/WG102 I have a new

Bug#790326: Driver Wext works but not nl80211

2015-06-29 Thread Samuel Smith
At work I tested on my other laptop ( a newer T520) that is still Wheezy. Running: wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -dd -c wpa.conf seems to show that at least on the version in Wheezy, the default is to use the wext driver. I forced it to use nl80211 with: wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -dd -Dnl80211 -c wpa.conf Us