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  1. Bug #401126
  2. Comment #276

Comment 276 for bug 401126

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Ivo Sir (ivo-sir) wrote :

Hi folks,

Sorry for crossposting... but after a sleepless night I managed to make my connection working and stable. I can confirm the post #275, thanks to Nuno for the hint.

Running Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) 64bit on Asus EEE 1201N with rtl8192se wifi interface.

A few days ago I bought a new wifi router, 802.11n capable. Since that time the connection was a nightmare. Drop-outs every few minutes, kernel panics, cold resets. I tried many driver versions from both https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/401126 and http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/, no joy. Ndiswrapper does not work for this network interface on the 64bit OS.

Finally, switching the router from WPA2 to WPA did the magic. Now running the latest driver from the Realtek web site, the connection has been rock stable, about 30 hours without a single drop-out, 150 Mbps.

Either the WPA2 implementation is faulty in the device driver or there is a coincidence of the WPA2 and the 802.11n standard.

Cheers!
Ivo