Hi: I have a home wifi which has been working well for the past three years or so. There is a Verizon router on the ESSID and the WEP key is also written down clearly. This has been working well both with Debian stable and unstable (aptosid) which I have on different disks. The wireless card is Intel and requires iwl4965 which I have down loaded and done modprobe -r iwlwifi etc so that it worked. Recently I came into some problem with grub and I had to reconfigure the wireless interface. I have come to the stage using wicd to have the interface recognized but it does not accept the password. I can make the text of the password visible so that I know what I am inputting, and in any case, there are Windows machines and Macs which use the same router which are working fine, So the problem seems to do with my Linux ,machine;both stable and unstable don't seem to recognize the password, though I can verify that it is the old one which worked for so long.Has anybody any clue as to what might behappening. When I configure it , it clearly says bad password. In fact it keeps retrying and asks for the key every five minutes or so.I 'd be grateful for any suggestions ad to how to debug this problem.
Sebastian Canagaratna.