Yes, that's the same issue.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:14:17PM -0400, Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote: > Paul, is this what you are referring to? > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg19695.html > > I had been getting the same errors with umd-secure-fast and am glad to > hear that they should be fixed in kernel 2.6.27-rc5. Thanks for the > information! > > Matt > > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 10:40 -0400, Paul Donohue wrote: > > So it turns out that the new mac80211 subsystem in the linux kernel was > > generating 802.11a association request packets that our Cisco access points > > didn't like. > > > > This has been fixed in the 2.6.27-rc5 kernel. It is NOT fixed in the > > compat-wireless-old package from linuxwireless.org, so you cannot get the > > fix simply by installing compat-wireless-old. > > > > Note that this affects all wireless drivers using the mac80211 subsystem, > > so if you're using a kernel >= 2.6.22 and < 2.6.27-rc5, 802.11a will > > probably not work for you on campus. > > > > -Paul > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:59:15AM -0400, Paul Donohue wrote: > > > The umd-secure-fast issue is an interesting one that I hadn't noticed ... > > > but now that you mention it, 802.11 isn't working for me either. > > > > > > umd-secure-fast and umd-fast are 802.11a only, umd-secure and umd are > > > 802.11a/b/g. For me, if I switch back to the old ipw3945 drivers, > > > 802.11a works fine. However, with the latest iwl3945 drivers, 802.11b/g > > > work fine, but 802.11a does not work when using any of the SSIDs. After > > > attempting to associate, I see messages like the following in the 'dmesg' > > > output: > > > eth1: associate with AP ... > > > eth1: RX AssocResp from ... (capab=0x11 status=18 aid=1) > > > eth1: AP denied association (code=18) > > > > > > I'm curious if you get similar messages with the ath5k driver when trying > > > to associate using 802.11a, or if you're seeing a different kind of > > > error... > > > > > > If anyone else on this list is having similar problems with 802.11a, I'd > > > be interested in hearing about them too... >
