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jstad

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2007-12-31

Posts: 2

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Network Manager and WPA

I am having a hell of a time getting my wireless working. I have gotten it working in an 802.11x network and an open network. My wireless card is the Dell 1505 draft-n card in my dell vostro 1400. I am using ndiswrapper with bcmwl5.inf driver. The router I am connecting to is a draft-n network but I am not sure if that would matter since it broadcasts b/g signal anyway.

I do not get any errors when entering my password in the gnome prompt, but it just times out. I have also tried the wpa_supplicant config (the manual way) with the same outcome. Any ideas on what to try?

I am launching networkmanager and networkmanager-dispatcher in the rc.d with !network

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zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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Re: Network Manager and WPA

Please try netcfg2 - it is in testing, but as far as I'm concerned it is stable as a rock. Your problem might be related to WPA2 (I don't know if WPA-supplicant supports this)

Check the 'announcements'-section or the wiki for news/info about netcfg2

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HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

Re: Network Manager and WPA

I'm using netcfg2 succesfully with a WPA2 network. Quite easy to set up!

blu3ness

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From: Edmonton, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 169

Re: Network Manager and WPA

i've had success with setting up a WPA2-TKIP network using wpa_supplicant as well, just in case if you want to look into that route.

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