I've got a Dell Latitude 5160 that I upgraded from SXCR B49 to B56. I decided to do a fresh install so I can see the differences.
I had serious driver crashes when I used the internal broadcom wireless device (using ndiswrapper) previously, so I use an external Atheros based plug-in card. This worked fine on B49 with the atheros 0.5 driver and inetmenu. These don't seem to be needed with B56 with its built-in networking selection. To make a long story short. I cannot connect to my network with shared WEP key anymore. In addition, it leaves GNOME in a bad state if it fails to connect. (no applications will come up), not even a terminal and everything becomes real sluggish. I assume that because the hostname, etc. is probably in a bad state caused the problems. But there is no way to recover once it's there. It would be nice if the network manager did something reasonable if it can't connect. So, how do I figure out why I can't connect anymore? This message posted from opensolaris.org
