VT6656-driver works even worse since 2.6.38

[Max Görner]

Hi,
I'm using the "Point of View" netbook "Mobii", which has got a
"VNT-6656" wlan stick hardwired. This wlan stick does not work properly,
and Greg Kroahs e-mail bot told me to write you.

Long story short:
lsusb:
$ lsusb -s 002
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 160a:3184 VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VNT-6656
[WiFi 802.11b/g USB Dongle]
I'm using Ubuntu. Until and including Ubuntu 10.10 I wasn't able to
connect to WPA/WPA2-mixed-mode protected WLAN. Ubuntu 10.10 used kernel
2.6.35, I'm pretty sure I tried mainline-kernels as well, but can't
promise.
Since I switched to Ubuntu 11.04, I am also unable to connect to WEP
802.1X- and to WPA and to WPA2-protected WLAN. I hadn't the possibility
to test WEP yet. I tried kernels 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 under Ubuntu 11.04. I
wasn't able to enable kernel 3.0 yet.

My quesitions are pretty basic:
1) Where to report a bug to? I found bugzilla.kernel.org, the two bugs
according to VNT6656 or VT6656 weren't attended so much. So maybe this
is the wrong place.

2) Is there a workaround? An even more experimental driver than those in
the staging section?

I am willed to help as good as possible, which includes testing
experimental drivers and give more details about the problems, for
example logs about failed connection attempts.

sincerely,
Max Görner
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