[Debian-eeepc-devel] still having wpa_supplicant problems with rt2860 on 901

[Phil Endecott]

Eric Cooper wrote:
> I should note also that I'm trying to associate with an old 802.11b-only
> AP, but it works fine with non-RT2860 devices.

Hi Eric,

There is still some "magic" about how the rt2860 module configuration 
works that I/we don't properly understand.  I have found that when 
connecting to my own home network (802.11g from a WRT54G running 
OpenWRT, with WEP) I can only make it work by setting up the parameters 
in the /etc/Wireless/RT2860.DAT file (or whatever it's called).  With 
the few other networks that I've tried I've not needed that file and 
have been able to configure it using iwpriv.  Working this out has 
taken lots of tedious trial and error.  I would not be at all surprised 
if connecting to a -b-only network is another corner-case that needs 
special configuration.  In your case, presumably wpa_suplicant is 
poking the module in some way that breaks it; if I were you, I'd enable 
debugging in the module (I think it's a compile-time option for the 
module) and/or strace wpa_suplicant and see exactly what wpa_suplicant 
does.  Then try variations on that manually until you find the step 
that breaks it.

Good luck!

Phil.