RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.reisz@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 11:40
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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
>
1. Yes, 2. Yes, 3. Yes, 4. Yes :)
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