Mostly off-topic, iwlwifi/WPA broken

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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I'm asking this here because this is a list I subscribe to with
particularly wireless-knowledgeable folks. Sorry for the noise, but
someone here hopefully can direct me somewhere better.

I'm trying to find out how to figure out what is wrong with my wireless
driver/card. I can't get anywhere with NetworkManager, despite the fact
that, supposedly, the scan_capa patch was added to my Ubuntu kernel by
the distro maintainers.

However, when I start NetworkManager --no-daemon:

NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver
'iwl3945'.
NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver does not support SSID scans
(scan_capa 0x00).

...which makes me assume that my distro did NOT actually add this patch
(or it was in there and fell out).

However, as far as I know, the scan_capa patch doesn't actually fix
anything that can't be manually worked around with wpa_supplicant, right
(like ap_scan=1)?

Reason I ask, is I can't get my card to connect to a WPA network with
any settings anymore, even the same exact settings I used for ipw3945,
and then with every iteration of ap_scan set. Any advice from anyone? As
Hardy nears release, I want to see what I might do before I'm stuck with
this.

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