Brian Millett wrote: >>> I'm running F7, NetworkManager-0.6.5-3.fc7. I just could not get >>> NetworkManager >>> to connect to my linksys wrt54g router with the security set to >>> wpa-personal. I >>> googeled all day long and into the night and all I saw was a lot of >>> other people >>> with problems. >>> >>> Tonight I tried to set the security to wpa2-personal on the router. >>> Tried again >>> to connect and just no luck. Stopped NetworkManager, power cycled the >>> router, >>> tried again. Still nothing. Then I noticed (while tailing >>> /var/log/messages) >>> that it was still trying wpa, but I had tried to make a new connection >>> with >>> wpa2-personal. >>> >>> So I stopped NetworkManager, launched gconf-editor, located the >>> settings for my >>> router and unset all of the values. Then I started NetworkManager, >>> and selected >>> my ssid. Entered the pass phrase and watch in amazement as it made a >>> connection. >>> >>> So the long and short of it is that something in the gconf settings >>> was stale >>> and needed refreshing, but I had to do it by hand. >>> >>> Hope this helps someone else. >> >> Was this a fresh installation or upgrade? > > It was an upgrade from FC6. > > It worked for a while after the upgrade. I was using eth1 for the > wireless > card. When I tried to use the iwl3945 drivers, I had some problems > staying > connected to the wrt54g router. It would work, then drop, so I made the > change to have the interface be wlan0 hoping that if I removed any non > standard setup > that it would help. It didn't. When I tried to go back to ipw3945, that > is when I had the problems connecting to an access point with > wpa-personal. > > Long answer to whether it was a fresh install or upgrade. Not sure if this is relevant, but as an experiment I tried to get NM (NetworkManager) working with the F-7 KDE Live CD, with a ThinkPad T43. I didn't try for long, but I couldn't get it to accept my WEP key (yes, I tried hex and ascii). It saw my access point OK; but whenever I gave the WEP key, it simply asked for it again. My conclusion: NM shouldn't really be part of a standard system. I'm sorry to say this, as the NM people have been very helpful to me. But in my experience, NM just adds another layer of obfuscation to the already murky world of WiFi. I think NM tries to do too much (eg including Ethernet as well as WiFi). what is needed is something which does the minimum necessary to get WiFi working. The whole WiFi setup in Fedora could do with a fundamental re-think. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
