Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:58 +0100, Nicolas Deschildre wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote:
> >> Take the intel 3945 card, for example.  Vincenzo says it doesn't work
> >> for him, under various modes.  Various users on the forums have also
> >> mentioned that their systems don't work with these cards.
> >>
> >> However, other users on the forums, mailing lists, and a whole lot of
> >> the developers, including myself, have this card, and see that it works
> >> for them.  I personally haven't seen this break since I upgraded to
> >> gutsy back at the UDS in Sevilla, 2007 (ie, pre-alpha 1), and I use WPA,
> >> which seems to be one of the areas of complaint, otherwise without problems.
> >
> > In my experience, it does work fine with WPA.  It's WEP that's the
> > issue.  It only works with WEP (properly) using iwconfig.  If you use
> > NetworkManager, the key will *never* be accepted.  And if you use
> > network-admin (gone in Intrepid), the key will be accepted, but it won't
> > get an IP address.
> 
> And yet, my intel 3945 works fine with me with WEP & NetworkManager
> both in Hardy and Intrepid. Don't forget there are multiple
> "sub-models" of a given model.
> Please report your detailled hardware information (lspci -vvnn) on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/253697 (Intel
> 3945 Wireless in Hardy cannot negotiate WEP or WPA Keys) or/and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/223174 (Intel
> WLAN, 3945 (a/b/g) - low performance).

I think I'm already on the first bug, but I'll check again.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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