Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Sunday 25 November 2007, John Summerfield wrote: >>> Could you be more specific as to what you are doing? I assume your start >>> by left clicking on nm-applet icon. At what point are you entering your >>> key? >> and how often? > > Well, one time should be enough but after trying 5 times I regard things to be > just not working properly. > > Anyway, I tried several restarts of the network services and even two wireless > cards with different chipset. I always get prompted for the key no matter how > many times I enter it (and I'm sure the key is correct). One of my pet peeves on my FC6 laptop. Just for reference, it has ipw3945 hardware, and I'm running the latest ipw3945-kmdls from atrpms-testing on mine (because they work slightly better than what's in atrpms-stable for me). I'm also running the latest wpa_supplicant I can find (atrpms too). All the rest of my software is up-to-date with yum. My WAP is a Linksys WRT54G, and I'm using WPA-PSK for security. Here are my 3 scenarios: 1) wireless comes up first time, all I need to do is enter the KeyRing passphrase when I login. 2) My wireless is not detected, in fact, NO wireless networks are detected (there are at least 5 in my neighborhood). I need to have NetworkManager connect manually. Sometime this works, sometimes this doesn't. In this case, my KeyRing passphrase is never queried, and I get continually prompted. This may sometimes succeed, but I haven't figured out what's really going on here. I usually get frustrated, turn the laptop off, wait a few minutes and try again from a clean reboot. Reloading wireless drivers may or may not fix this problem. Its a crapshoot, which makes me believe my problem may be hardware related. I've never been able to use the iwconfig tools to create a connection without using NM, and I stay away from trying to configure it with system-config-network because I've never gotten that to work either. ATM, to me, its black magic, and I hate that! 3) My wireless gets dropped (often after being connect for a long period of time). The automatic re-connect gets hung and never connects (its probably prompting me for my passphrase, but some FC6 bug keeps this window under my other windows so I never notice it). This happens most often overnight and drops the connection in the very wee hours of the morning. I have no idea why. Again, reloading the wireless drivers may or may not work. Maybe it depends on the phase of the moon? Sometimes in the middle of 2), it magically prompts me for my KeyRing passphrase (if its failed in 1 or 3) and then works. Other times, I'm in retry hell. I wish NM would associate the passphrase with the network name entered at the prompt and not just with the ESSID from the network scan (and I can't even figure out how/when it does a network re-scan! or even why it needs to scan again, or how it gets into modes where its sees no networks!). For the most part it works for me. I've gotten into the habit of leaving my laptop on 24/7 and only rebooting when: a) I forget about the battery and it dies b) I need to reboot because I lost the wireless. c) I installed a new kernel and all of its kernel modules. I'm hoping that iwl3945 is better when I have to upgrade to F8 or F9.... > regards, > Marcel -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
