RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.reisz@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 18:46
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
>
> On Tuesday 13 July 2010 08:41:58 John Frankish wrote:
> > No, I have not tried turning WEP off, but on the same machine booted in
> > tinycorelinux I can connect, albeit after a couple of attempts and not
> > using NetworkManager.
> >
> > Also on three other laptops (none of which use the same hardware) and an
> > iPhone there are no problems connecting.
> >
> > I'll try rmmod/modprobe ipw2100 (google suggests this might work) and if
> > not, I guess it's ndiswrapper...
>
> 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
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