Bug#386951: driver loses association repeatedly (WPA)

[martin f krafft]

Package: madwifi-source
Version: 0.svnr1697.0.9.2-1
Severity: important

Ever since I upgraded to the madwifi-ng driver, it's become mostly
unusable. I am using the latest 2.6.17 kernel from unstable. From
time to time I get it to work, but most of the time it cannot
establish an association with the access point, even after reloading
the driver. I am using WPA, and with -D madwifi, wpasupplicant says:

<2>Trying to associate with 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6 (SSID='krafft' freq=2447 MHz)
<2>Association request to the driver failed
<2>Associated with 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6
<2>WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6 [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
<2>CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6 completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=]
<2>WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6 [GTK=TKIP]
<2>WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6 [GTK=TKIP]
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

If I switch to -D wext, it's even worse:

<2>Trying to associate with 00:12:cf:01:4a:d6 (SSID='krafft' freq=2447 MHz)
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.

As said, from time to time it *does* work with the same
configuration (-D madwifi, I never actually got it to work with
wext). Also, other machines are associating fine with the AP, so it
really seems to be an atheros problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (250, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-6    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     5.0.37.3   helper programs for debian/rules
ii  module-assistant              0.10.6     tool to make module package creati

madwifi-source recommends no packages.

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