On 03/05/10, Zoran Kolic (zkolic@sbb.rs) wrote: | > | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...', 'Validating authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out and says 'Connection failed: Unable to Get IP Address.' | > | > I have no clue what causes the problem, but I have found a clumsy | > workaround by trial and error: when I reset the router (Linksys | > WRT54GL) either to WPA from WPA2, or back the other way, wic manages | > to connect the next try. It doesn't seem to matter whether wic is | > looking for a password or a pre-shared key, so long as the the | > protocol is TKIP. Next time, I have to reset the router back the | > other way. No further change required -- until the next time, when the | > router needs to be reset _again_!. | | I have the same router. The very first thing was to | set it to "g only". That won't work for me, since one of the laptops has only b, the other g. See below. | ... Would be fine to know some | details about the hardware. Wifi chip at least. My card is listed at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wireless_Network_Adapters#IBM_High_Rate_Wireless_LAN_PC_Card, at the very bottom of the page: IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card Chipset: Hermes I Drivers: orinoco_cs Supported wireless modes: 802.11b I pulled the thing out of the machine, and discovered, something that I had not seen anywhere else, printed on the underside what may well be a clue: "Encryption: WEP64" -- JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63
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