Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved
Excerpts from Anthony Campbell's message of 2011-06-23 13:06:54 +0200:
> On 23 Jun 2011, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > Hi Anthony,
> > I had similar problems in the past. Seemingly working wireless but not
> > really. In my case it boiled down to drivers that didn't really work,
> > but this was a broadcom chip. I guess the semi-open drivers still don't
> > work for BCM4312 LP-PHY, although they should since a couple of kernel
> > versions.
> >
> > Anyway, wicd didn't help when troubleshooting and on IRC I met a guy who
> > said he was the maintainer and using networkmanager himself..
> >
> > My suggestion is to, somehow, make sure the driver works for your chip
> > and then configure everything manually, using wpa_supplicant directly if
> > necessary (not THAT hard). If you can't get it to work that way it won't
> > work any other way.
> >
> > Once it works you can use whatever suits best. Personally I don't use
> > wicd anymore but a (possibly Arch Linux specific) script called netcfg
> > which is simple and sufficient for most use cases.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Philipp
> >
> >
> Thanks, Philipp - you were right and gave me the clue. There are two
> modules available, ath5k and ath9k. I was using ath5k because that is
> what the docs talk about, but when I changed to ath9k the connection
> came up correctly. Excellent!
>
> Anthony
Glad to be of help :)
Regards,
Philipp
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