Comment 15 for bug 1022016

moved wifi router from channel 1 to channel 8 in order to reduce collision with neighbors. Also changed encryption from tkpi to aes.
The rest of wifi devices, some of them running ubuntu have shown improved speed.
This usb dongle... now just fails to connect no mattrer which kernel version i try. It's able to detect that a network is present and even reaches the point of asking for the wifi password.... but never reaches to connect.
This is not completely susprising since the original error messages in this bug pointed to a situation where the adaptor was unable to choose which channel to use and was trying now one, then another.
Anyway enough is enough, it's clerar that support for this device is far from mature in the wifi channel management area.
I rather disvelieve it's something related to the kernel itself. I rather thing it's related to the carl9170 driver but that's just my guess.
In looking at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#available_devices i get a rather discouraging picture about this driver stability.
Frustrating as it is I choosen not to invest any more time trying kernels. Some seemed to work better than other but none was working flawlesly. I believe this is more relate to the number of collisons with neighbors thant to actual kernel behavior.
I'm open to try a different approach, a newer cal9170 driver or firmware or something alike if something comes out but for the time being I'll just go and buy some other hardware.
Thanks for your support and advice so far. Pity we didn't get to the bottom of this