USB wifi dongle has to be physically replugged to change access point

ninian · 2011-05-24 22:05:27

Sorry for my ignorance about wireless networking in advance.
I have an Edimax EW-7318USg (rt73 driver) USB wifi dongle which I haven't used for a while. I now find that when I want to connect to a different access point (using netcfg or Wicd), I have to physically unplug and plug the dongle in again before it works. Otherwise I just get a (WPA) bad password message when I try to connect to the new access point.
However, networkmanager and nm-applet work as expected and I can reconnect to various different access points while leaving the dongle plugged in.
What's going on, I wonder?

Last edited by ninian (2011-05-24 22:26:20)

twilight0 · 2011-05-26 14:24:22

Try the various options in wicd, such as dhclient or dhcpd and others, they might work.

ninian · 2011-05-26 16:12:30

twilight0 wrote:

Try the various options in wicd, such as dhclient or dhcpd and others, they might work.

Thanks, hadn't experimented with dhclient vs. dhcpd, etc.
But the same thing is happening when I connect with netcfg as well, so it's not just Wicd.
Will play around a bit with options as you suggest.

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#1 2011-05-24 22:05:27

USB wifi dongle has to be physically replugged to change access point

#2 2011-05-26 14:24:22

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