> | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...', > 'Validating authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out > and says 'Connection failed: Unable to Get IP Address.' > > I have no clue what causes the problem, but I have found a clumsy > workaround by trial and error: when I reset the router (Linksys > WRT54GL) either to WPA from WPA2, or back the other way, wic manages > to connect the next try. It doesn't seem to matter whether wic is > looking for a password or a pre-shared key, so long as the the > protocol is TKIP. Next time, I have to reset the router back the > other way. No further change required -- until the next time, when the > router needs to be reset _again_!.
I have the same router. The very first thing was to set it to "g only". Changing the channel may help further. So, I would try that out, giving wpa2 a chan- ce and using wpa_supplicant. Would be fine to know some details about the hardware. Wifi chip at least. (I hope I did not oversee it.) Best regards Zoran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100503043834.ga...@faust.net