Comment 17 for bug 602609

Cyd,

You are right, the bug isn't fixed.
needlez6 had changed the status of bug #643788, the bug this is marked a duplicated of, from "Fix Committed" to "In Progress." This bug should have the same status (since being a duplicate implies they are the same bug), but unfortunately I cannot change it.

As it is, there is a lot of discussion of a fix, but so far it is just a work-around. http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=127542355914348&w=4 is the only email I can find where a developer discusses merging a patch into the mainline work. As far as I can tell there hasn't been any discussion at the proper place to fix this since June.

In summary, unless there is something more correct in the thousands of messages in linux-wireless about this (a very real possibility), this bug isn't fix. The patch at http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/channel-negative-one-maxim.patch will work for most people, although my understanding is that it will break users who use multiple channels with one wireless card.