Bug#473709: madwifi-source: Connection drops within an hour

[Kel Modderman]

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 14:29:27 Bill Wohler wrote:
> Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure how well ath5k is working currently, but sure do hope it becomes
> > a good successor to the bug prone madwifi driver soon.
> 
> Hi Kel,
> 
> I switched to ath5k a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, there appears
> to be a problem with ath5k, WEP, and my chipset AR5211. I can associate
> with the AP, but the network connection doesn't come up. If I drop WEP,
> then I can connect. 
> 
> In any event, since I use restricted MAC addresses on my AP, and use ssh
> and ssl for communications, I'm content with using an unsecured network
> for now, especially since my ath5k connections have been up for two
> weeks solid now!

Promising ;) I'm not sure ath5k supports WPA well at all yet though.

> 
> I'm hoping to improve things by switching to WPA per [1] but haven't
> gotten around to that yet. By the way, do you know if this HOWTO is up
> to date?
> 
> In any case, I'm not going back to madwifi, so I wouldn't really be able
> to test any changes you make. Therefore, please close this bug unless
> someone else sends out a "me too".
> 
> 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-6fdd87d329e68a583e5fde32c6b21e460e5541a5
> 

The example is over engineered, but still relevant. Usually a common
/etc/network/interfaces stanza for static connection to WPA-PSK access point:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid ACCESSPOINTSSID
    wpa-psk SUPERSECRETKEY

This is explained in more detial at /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz

Thanks, Kel.