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vladuz976

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From: Venice, CA

Registered: 2005-11-04

Posts: 108

networkmanager finds networks but cannot connect to them.

I installed network manager according to the wiki. It finds wireless networks fine, but I cannot connect to them.
First, it asks me for the password to the network, but I cannot enter anything in the text field. After a few tries it the text field usually works. it then connect to the network and disconnect immediately.
If I try again, networkmanager just quits.
I restart it with /etc/rc.d/networkmanger restart
and try to connect to the wireless network and the same thing happens I cannot enter the password during the first few attemps. When I am able to enter a password into the text field, it just tries to connect and then keeps popping up the password dialog.
When I connect the wired network it works just fine.

this is my daemons line in rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng ipw3945d !network dbus hal netfs crond dhcpcd networkmanager alsa)

the wireless card is an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.

I am also certain that the password I am entering is correct.
With another distro's live CD I can connect to it just fine.
Also it works on my sister's macbook.

Is it possible that archlinux's networkmanager package is broken?

Any hints or ideas would be greatly appreciated,

thanks

arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 111

Re: networkmanager finds networks but cannot connect to them.

Have you loaded the ipw3945 module in rc.conf? If yes, then try wicd, works flawlessly (it is in aur or community). Remove networkmanagaer and include wicd in daemons in rc.conf.

arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 111

Re: networkmanager finds networks but cannot connect to them.

ipw3945d , is it a daemon? it should load as a module in rc.conf. pl check...

MezeK

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 3

Re: networkmanager finds networks but cannot connect to them.

Maybe you are using wrong daemon for DHCP - "dhcpcd" . In the wiki is "dhcdbd" :

Also, don't forget to enable the dhcdbd daemon, if not, you may not be able to get a default route

I am using it and networkmanager works fine.