Comment 84 for bug 339891

I have to agree with jeorsch (#81) although I haven't tried wicd to see what happens there. I had been running intrepid very reliably with the array.org dkms driver and now I'm toast. I installed jaunty on a fresh partition, pulled down rt2860-source from the debian repository, applied the patch, and was able to connect to my WPA2 AP for the first time ever on Jaunty. I then went ahead and upgraded my main partition only to find that while the patched driver seems to work sometimes, it is not reliable.

I often get the "Wireless Network Authentication Required" dialog pop up (same symptoms as for the unpatched driver). I have found that usually when I use network manager to edit the connections and delete the Auto entry that I can re-enter the password and continue (but even this isn't totally reliable).

I'm bummed since I had a perfectly working 8.10 system. I guess I'll give a patched 2.x driver from Ralink a try but an seriously worried I'm wasting my time at this point (don't know enough about what is happening under the hood to fix it myself). I guess the lesson learned is that I should have used the fresh partition for a few days instead of jumping to the upgrade as soon as I got a connect :-(.

If anyone has any suggestions I could try I'd love to hear them. And thanks to all on this thread for your work and comments.