On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:03:38AM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Mark <mamar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Arthur Machlas > > <arthur.mach...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark <mamar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What > >>> the what?? > >>> > >> > >> Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That > >> it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey. > >> > >> Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it > >> was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I > >> had > >> to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing > >> firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed. > >> > >> Best, > >> Arthur > >> > > > > Aptitude it is. I don't mind nuking the hdd and reinstalling Lenny from > > scratch (I have the dvd .iso downloaded). Lesson learned! (Assuming > > aptitude installation works!) > > > > Mark > > > > I did a fresh install of Lenny and still the same problem persists. All > wireless networks are recognized, and after being prompted for my wpa key, > network manager just shows 2 gray dots (neither one turns green) and after > about 30 seconds it times out. Before anyone asks, I'm copying/pasting the > wpa key from a usb drive that I use on the other laptops which connect just > fine, but again they have BCM wifi cards not this ipw2100 type. > I missed the beginning of this thread, so I'm not sure what the aptitude solution is. I see that there's a firmware-ipw2x00 package in debian-backports. If you haven't already tried that, you might want to give it a shot.
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