Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
On Thursday 15 July 2010 05:08:13 John Frankish wrote:
> > -----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
> > 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
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