quixote
June 5th, 2008, 09:21 AM
Could be something to do with the update to the new kernel (.18 ) since others are having trouble too. When I try to connect to a wireless network, the popup tip just says "Waiting for network key". In the good old days the dialog box for the keyring password popped up. Now: nothing.
Initially, I thought my wireless was down. I reinstalled network-manager, network-manager-gnome, and wpasupplicant. Didn't help. In /etc/network/interfaces, commenting out all lines except the "lo" related ones (as per this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676117)) at least got the wireless networks to show up again in nm-applet, but it still didn't access the keyring. $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart finally got me the dialog to enter the whole WPA1 passphrase and then make a new keyring. That's about ten minutes of messing about every time I want to use wireless!
It's probably this bug, wpasupplicant doesn't start when network starts (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/44194)? But, if so, that is a HUGE ISSUE! There needs to be a red sticky telling us that the devs are working on it, and especially what, if any, is the best, simple workaround.
Wieman01 has an excellent post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834) about configuring without using network-manager, But I've had rather poor luck doing anything with my wireless manually, and after all the fighting with the network the last couple of days, I want to be sure anything I try will work!
Initially, I thought my wireless was down. I reinstalled network-manager, network-manager-gnome, and wpasupplicant. Didn't help. In /etc/network/interfaces, commenting out all lines except the "lo" related ones (as per this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676117)) at least got the wireless networks to show up again in nm-applet, but it still didn't access the keyring. $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart finally got me the dialog to enter the whole WPA1 passphrase and then make a new keyring. That's about ten minutes of messing about every time I want to use wireless!
It's probably this bug, wpasupplicant doesn't start when network starts (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/44194)? But, if so, that is a HUGE ISSUE! There needs to be a red sticky telling us that the devs are working on it, and especially what, if any, is the best, simple workaround.
Wieman01 has an excellent post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834) about configuring without using network-manager, But I've had rather poor luck doing anything with my wireless manually, and after all the fighting with the network the last couple of days, I want to be sure anything I try will work!