Comment 27 for bug 207446

I still have Gutsy 7.10, and am having this problem.

* Compaq r4010us laptop
* Broadcom 4306
* Using ndiswrapper with 'wext' in the command line
* Linksys WRT54GS v1.0 Firmware v4.50.6
* Attempting WPA(1)-PSK with static IP
* 'network-manager' and 'gnome-network-manager' uninstalled, as they were fouling up my manual IP settings; erasing them.

I can connect fine with encryption disabled. Enabled, I have had successful connections twice, but it's not easy to get them and I have yet to nail down the procedure to get it, as the nature of this bug makes landing on the right sequence of steps difficult.

The two times I did connect with WPA, I decided to 'play around a bit' and see exactly what the key to it was, and I permanently lost the connection until the next boot, but mind you that it will not connect at boot even though I'm using the rc.local script. I still have to play around with it to connect.

So, apparently, once it goes down, only a reboot and more fiddling solves it. I have tried the following 'resets', to no avail:

* /etc/init.d/networking restart
* /etc/init.d/dbus restart

I have tried ap_scan set to 0, 1 and 2. I have invoked wpa_supplicant in two combinations:

1) -Bw without -d or -dd
2) -w with -dd

I will be playing with it more this week as I have time (and hair to pull), and I'll report what I find.