Comment 50 for bug 162671

USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! I thought this may be of help to certain members and I apologise profusely if this is stepping on anyone's toes; it is a very hackish way of getting wireless to work for me. I managed to compile the vt6656_stage driver for Ubuntu karmic 9.10 default x86 kernel version 2.6.31-14-generic and am currently using it to submit this comment. By downloading a snapshot of the vt6656_stage driver straight from the kernel git tree a couple of days ago I was able to compile the module outside the main kernel source. Many thanks go to the developers and maintainers of this driver without whom I'd be a lot worse off!

I have a Zotac 9300 mini-ITX motherboard with the included VIA USB wireless card (ID 160a:3184). I have a WPA2 wireless access point using mixed AES/TKIP encryption. It does take some time for the VIA card to associate but it always does eventually. It also re-associates after resume from S3 sleep.

I have attached the kernel module. I installed it as follows:

:~$mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/extra
:-$sudo cp vt6656_stage.ko /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/extra/
:-$sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/extra/vt6656_stage.ko
:-$sudo depmod -a
:-$sudo service network-manager restart

Associated dmesg output is this:

[ 4.406871] VIA Networking Wireless LAN USB Driver 1.19_12
[ 4.406885] VIA Networking Wireless LAN USB Driver Ver. 1.19_12
[ 4.406887] Copyright (c) 2004 VIA Networking Technologies, Inc.
[ 4.657148] usbcore: registered new interface driver vt6656
[ 7.168591] Config_FileOperation file Not exist
[ 7.434483] Zone=[2][E][U]!!
[ 45.903500] AP(BSS) finding:Found a AP(BSS)..
[ 45.936144] 802.11 Authen (OPEN) Successful.
[ 45.950764] Association Successful, AID=2.
[ 45.950769] Link with AP(SSID): binker

I can give instructions to anyone who wants to attempt to compile this driver themselves.