On Thursday 15 July 2010 05:08:13 John Frankish wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lisi [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 18:46 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
> > Why not try uninstalling Network Mangler and using someother method - > > e.g. > > WICD (my own preferred solution), /etc/network/interfaces or some other > > manager? > > > > Lisi > > I tried a few more things: > > 1. NetworkManager > I get the errors below and rmmod/modprobe ipw2100 does not help. Since only > NetworkManager and not wicd nor "the old way" produces these error > messages, I presume this is a bug. > > $ dmesg | grep ipw2100 > [ 6.807473] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, > git-1.2.2 [ 6.807478] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation > [ 6.829420] ipw2100 0000:01:0a.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKG] -> GSI 11 > (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [ 6.830090] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless > 2100 Network Connection [ 6.830117] ipw2100 0000:01:0a.0: firmware: > requesting ipw2100-1.3.fw [ 39.906727] ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. > Scheduling firmware restart. [ 78.668486] ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. > Scheduling firmware restart. [ 130.105385] ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. > Scheduling firmware restart. > > 2. wicd > All attempts to connect to the wireless network result in an error message > "bad password" There are no errors in dmesg > > 3. This works without errors in dmesg and wcid recognizes the link is > connected > > $ cat /etc/network/interfaces > ... > # wireless > allow-hotplug eth2 > iface eth2 inet dhcp > wireless-essid myessid > wireless-key 12:34:56:78:9A:BC:DE:F1:23:45:67:89:AB > wireless-keymode restricted When trying WICD did you: 1. Uninstall Network Mangler 2. Comment out the wireless entries in /etc/network/interfaces 3. Reboot 4. Run WICD If you have not (and you need to have done all of them), I should try it now. It is possible to stop and restart the network without rebooting, but I feel that this way makes sure that everyting has to restart. Others MMV. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
