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Hello Everyone!
I guess it is important to sort Driver related problems from Router related ones!
I run Ubuntu Jaunty with unmodified rt2860 staging driver (that makes it ver. 1.8.1.0 I guess - forgot how to check it), but a modified RT2860.dat file, which enables N-speeds. I currently use Network manager ver. 0.7.0.100.
We have 3 different APs in our shared flat. One of it is the D-Link DIR-635. Connection to this router can be troublesome: prolonged authentication time, failure to connect, sudden loss of connection, or loss of SMB or internet connections while staying associated to the router. In the last case the router cannot be reached by Ping either, even though connection seems to be maintained. I'd like to stress, that this router seems to show similar problems with various Windows clients: they get connected to the router, but not to the internet! This occurs rather randomly and might be related to running the Router in mixed 802.11 mode (n,g,b),
With the Belkin 54 G (802.11g+WPA) and the Level One AP (802.11g+WPA2) there seems to be no such trouble.
Right now I am connected to the DIR-635. Settings are: Mixed 802.11 Mode (n,g,b), WPA Auto, Cypher set to TKIP (WPA). It can be set to AES (WPA2) as well, but I find it slows Authentication a lot, sometimes so much that NM jumps to the Belkin instead. However, for some time I ran the router with Cypher: AES; WPA mode: WPA2, without major trouble.
I presently cannot connect to WPA Enterprise network at my university (eduroam). This was possible with earlier versions of the driver.
To round things up: testing connections with different routers or testing routers with different clients might be essential to get a better grip of what the driver trouble consists of. Some of the newer routers with Draft n have their own issues. For sure is, that mixed cypher continues to be non-functional both with WPA Personal and Enterprise. The first patch seems to work for some, but there is at least 1 case reporting total loss of connectivity to encrypted networks after applying it.
I have a (somewhat) working connection now, so I am reluctant to try both later drivers or patches. But I would like to participate in an ordered approach to sort this out.
Regards