View Full Version : [ubuntu] Wireless Network not working in 8.10 - keeps asking for password
tuxfan5
January 8th, 2009, 12:31 AM
I have Ubuntu 8.10. Wireless was working perfectly in 8.04, but upgrading broke it. Now, Ubuntu detects my network and attempts to connect. However, it seems to keep timing out, and constantly asks for my ssid and password over and over again. I have a gigabyte pci wireless card which uses the rt2500 driver. I have tried troubleshoot after troubleshoot using ubuntu docs. Everything I try says that its working perfectly. I'll post the output to those commands at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6183681, but I'm on my windows partition right now. Any ideas? I'm considering switching distros if I can't get this to work, but I'd prefer it be fixed than have to switch. I'm running an x84 processer. Any help would be appreciated.
dougpan
January 8th, 2009, 01:04 AM
Just a long shot but you might want to check and see if you have IPV6 turned on.
If it is the problem might be with ipv6 waiting for ip activity too long. The same problem happens on Fedora 5 Linux with the atheros chipset. I found that turning on IPV6 makes the wait time shorter or something. Turning it off seemed to allow it to not time out.
The following explains how to turn off ipv6 by changing the setting in the file /etc/network/interfaces
iface eth0 inet dhcp
The above line means that interface (“iface”) eth0 should have an IPv4 address space (replace “inet” with “inet6” for an IPv6 device) and that it should get its configuration automatically from DHCP.
See: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html
Doug
tuxfan5
January 8th, 2009, 03:39 AM
Nope, that didn't work. I forgot to mention that I am currently using the ndiswrapper windows driver, as I had previously tried to use the default one, and that didn't work. I'm attaching the results of what I said I'd do before now.
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