Hi Larry, thanks for the answer, here some more information as requested AP infos:distance: 3m NEC Aterm WR8600N ATERM-B45459 firmware 1.0.11 Network card is built in into a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge # lspci -nnv -s 03:00.0 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8172] (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:e020] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] Memory at f0500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 88-55-22-fe-ff-4c-e0-00 Kernel driver in use: rtl8192se # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"norbujp" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:3A:9D:B4:54:5A Bit Rate=150 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-35 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:9 Missed beacon:0 at this point there is according to ifconfig/iwconfig a connection up and running, but ping tells me: # ping 192.168.0.1 ... >From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=77 Destination Host Unreachable .. I tried with network-manager as well as without and wpa_supplicant directly, no change. Also removing the module and reloading it did not help. On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Larry Finger wrote: > the details of your AP - STA configuration. What is the distance? Is I think it is pretty standard WPA-PSK, is there anything more I can tell you, please let me know. > it 802.11n or 802.11g? What is the signal strength as indicated by > iwconfig or a scan? See above. > From what you posted earlier, I think your card is like my Cards 1 & > 3, but the PCI ID will tell for sure. These tests were run with > commit 0a92aec2f22d of wireless-testing. There are some test patches > installed, but non of them affect rtl8192se. I am running on top of default kernel git, will try wireless-testing, too. Thanks a lot and all the best, and let me know what I can provide more! Norbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live and Debian Developer gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPING (participial vb.) The increasingly anxious shifting from leg to leg you go through when you are desperate to go to the lavatory and the person you are talking to keeps on remembering a few final things he want to mention. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html