RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.reisz@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 13:13
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network
>
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> Oh dear!!
>
> Setting my granddaughter's laptop to talk to her school's wireless
> network was a nightmare, and I never did find out why. It connected to other
> wireless routers without a problem. I tried 3 - or was it 4? - different
> distros, I tried 3 different wireless cards, I asked for help from someone more
> knowledgable and experienced than I, I tore my hair out. Eventually,
> with Open Suse 11.00, I was getting some sort of response, but still not an
> actual connection. In the end, the one person in the school IT department who
> knew anything about Linux took the almost-connecting Open Suse install off
> to the school IT lab, and came back with it working, having worked thro'
> several wireless cards that they had lying around, and found one that worked,
> which they donated to her. He may also have done some tweaking,
>
> My laptop with Lenny and that same card does not connect at her school
> - but connects without hesitation anywhere else.
>
> I believe the American expression is "go figure!". You have my
> sympathy, but I am for now out of ideas.
>
> I assume that you have checked the driver?
>
> Lisi
>
Thanks for the suggestions - since things work "the old fashioned way" with
/etc/network/interfaces, I presume the driver is good - I'll probably leave
Networkmanager uninstalled, uninstall wicd and use "the old fashioned way" for
Both wired and wireless connections
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