painterh
December 31st, 2008, 04:53 PM
I have a new Asus M50VM-X1 with Vista pre-loaded and a fresh install of Intrepid. I set up additional partitions so that my 250 GB hdd has 4 nearly equal partitions. Vista was already setup with one for the Vista OS and one for data and I set up the other 2 as ext3 and did my install. I used "Easy BCD" for bootloader and the install went flawlessly. I now have a major issue. Wireless Networking
This notebook uses the Atheros 928x internal card/chip. In network manager, when I enable wireless networking, It sees my gateway but wont seem to connect. I have checked out the wireless switch on the front of computer and it is on. I would think that if bluetooth is working, (bluetooth icon is visible in panel when switch is in on position), and it sees my network in network manager that the wireless is indeed turned on. It seems to have difficulty with WEP key. It seems to prefer WPA as network security, and wont remember my WEP key. My home network is set up with 64 bit WEP passphrase, and that choice is not given in network manager. It always gets to the point of acquiring a network address and then fails to connect. I have seen other posts about the Atheros 928x driver not working properly in Intrepid (or linux in general), so I think it is a driver issue but don't know what to do at this point.
I have looked at some posts concerning this issue, but the info seems to be more for Hardy than for Intrepid. If there is anyone who is familiar with this notebook or is really up to speed on wireless networking (especially on notebooks), and could dialogue with me a little to help solve this issue, It would be wonderful. I really don't want to try another distro because I have been using Ubuntu on my desktop PC and it works great. I do know from the hours I have spent on the net trying to get this sorted that notebook hardware is quite different to set up (and the problems are unique to individual manufacturers and hardware). I eagerly look forward to some help with issue. Thanks in advance.
This notebook uses the Atheros 928x internal card/chip. In network manager, when I enable wireless networking, It sees my gateway but wont seem to connect. I have checked out the wireless switch on the front of computer and it is on. I would think that if bluetooth is working, (bluetooth icon is visible in panel when switch is in on position), and it sees my network in network manager that the wireless is indeed turned on. It seems to have difficulty with WEP key. It seems to prefer WPA as network security, and wont remember my WEP key. My home network is set up with 64 bit WEP passphrase, and that choice is not given in network manager. It always gets to the point of acquiring a network address and then fails to connect. I have seen other posts about the Atheros 928x driver not working properly in Intrepid (or linux in general), so I think it is a driver issue but don't know what to do at this point.
I have looked at some posts concerning this issue, but the info seems to be more for Hardy than for Intrepid. If there is anyone who is familiar with this notebook or is really up to speed on wireless networking (especially on notebooks), and could dialogue with me a little to help solve this issue, It would be wonderful. I really don't want to try another distro because I have been using Ubuntu on my desktop PC and it works great. I do know from the hours I have spent on the net trying to get this sorted that notebook hardware is quite different to set up (and the problems are unique to individual manufacturers and hardware). I eagerly look forward to some help with issue. Thanks in advance.