[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#790326: Driver Wext works but not nl80211

[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, something else is at play here. I am 
suspecting some issue with the interaction between my home router and 
software. I have a newer 802.11n capable access point ordered and on the 
way.

Still confused as to why this is not more wide spread, the T61 laptop, 
at least a few years ago was very popular. But perhaps the WG102 router 
it is connecting to is not so popular... On the WG102, I have tried 
restoring to defaults and setting various different crypto options for 
WPA/WPA2 as well, all the same outcome.

New card:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN 
[Shiloh] Network Connection
         Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
         Memory at df3fe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
         Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
         Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
         Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-1e-65-ff-ff-f2-e2-ec
         Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi