ath5k fails to connect to WPA-PSK secured AP on AR5001X+ in HP nc8000 laptop running lucid 10.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Arch Linux) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The laptop has a mini-pci card that has an ar5212 chipset, which is reported to work with ath5k.
As the attached part of kern.log shows, it authenticates, associates, then immediately deauthenticates by itself. This process loops until it asks me for the passphrase again (which is a 12 digit hex key). Then it starts looping this again until eventually it gives up.
This happens using kernel 2.6.32, 2.6.33 and 2.6.38 from the ubuntu kernel ppa. It also happens using compat-
What I have tried:
Disable security on AP -> connects fine.
Compile kernel from source -> same problem.
Uninstall network-manager and use wicd -> same problem.
Configure wpa_supplicant.conf -> same problem.
Compile wpa_supplicant from source -> same problem.
Use ubuntu 10.10 -> kernel panics and complete hard lockups, wireless still did not work when the entire system didn't crash.
At the moment I'm running 2.6.38-10-generic 32bit.
Aircrack-ng is installed and putting the card in monitor mode using airmon-ng works fine and can capture traffic well.
affects: | ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: natty |
tags: | added: lucid |
This week I installed Arch on this laptop and the problem still occurs, so this is not an Ubuntu bug. Using wpa_supplicant directly leaves me with a blinking terminal cursor and nothing happens. iwconfig shows that the card is running in the 5GHz band instead of the 2.4GHz band that my AP is in, and any attempt to change the channel or frequency via iwconfig does not work.