Wireless doesn't accept password in 8.04

[Peter K Nicol]

I have followed many threads but I am no further forward. I have a working USB device (Netgear WG111v2) and I can see my network. I have a WEP passphrase. The signal is weaker than on Windows (50% as opposed to 88%) and as soon as I try to start Google, for instance, the signal drops to 0. The passphrase is asked for again. The annoying part of this is that in 7.04 it worked perfectly but for an occasional dropped signal. In 7.10 it worked ok with lots of dropped signals. In 8.04 the signal is dropped immediately. I am sending this over my wired connection on the same network with no problem at all. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

[danpos]

@Peter K Nicol

There's something about your issue at this launchpad thread (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24/+bug/184788). Specifically this message (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24/+bug/184788/comments/10).

Danpos.

[lankforddl]

Peter,

I use the same usb netgear wg111v2 with my dell laptop and it works great!

First: the signal strength isn't very accurate. I tested connectivity with windows and ubuntu with the same netgear usb device and they reported almost similar conn/bandwidth/ etc.. The connection percentage in ubuntu is not accurate.

Second: AppArmor would block my access when i first started using this wireless device and once I supplied the password for the default keyring request it worked fine. These details may not help you but it could get you moving in the right direction.

Do you establish a connection something like this: Take a look at the Link Quality:90/100 Signal level:-38 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm

danny@ubuntu1420:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"LANKFORD"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:1F:68:7E
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:90/100 Signal level:-38 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I've found that linux doesn't show the same si