Hi all,
I hope I am not
"troubling" the readers of this mailing list, but after a few nights of
trying all kinds of work-arounds I was told this is the place to ask
for help.
After a lot of
searching, I bought the Edimax EW-7108PCg wireless card. It should have
worked 100% on linux. Indeed, when I first inserted it and booted up
the system I saw the
"activity" light on the card blinking, all looked well, I saw that the
rt2500 was loaded, and even manged to connect to a network - the "link"
light turned on, the dhcp request was answered by the network, I got an
IP an DNS entries - all looked great.
The Technion network required MAC authentication: it identified the MAC
address of my card, asked me for my password (not a "network" password,
just a one confirming I am a student in the Technion) and I was told
that
registration for the network is complete, and I have to restart my
computer.
When restarting, the lights on the card did not blink, there was no
activity at all, as if the card is "dead". Moreover, the card somehow
made the whole networking services get "stuck" - I cannot open
system->networking, kill or restart the dhclient, issue iwconfig,
connect using my
ethernet - nothing. The computer is 90% stuck.
It is needless to say that if I reboot without the wireless card
everything is working well. Even if I boot from a live CD WITH the
wireless card -all is well, the card is identified and active... (so
the cards works on Ubuntu, after all it is an "pen" driver)
It seams like something in my network configuration/services was
changed after first connecting successfully to the Technion wireless
network and
ever since plugging in the wireless card (or booting up when it is
inside) makes the whole system get stuck.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot!!!
Asaf.
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