"Darren Albers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/14/06, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> >> How do wireless connection problems with network >> manager/wpa_supplicant get solved? Do they get solved, or do people >> just give up? Really, this is not meant to be a rant; I do deeply >> appreciate that people work on and support this stuff for free. > > I guess I should add a "How to get help section to the FAQ" listing > all the information someone might need to debug the connection. Part > of the problem is that many of the issues have been resolved and the > fixes just not backported to the various distributions and many of the > people who frequent this list are taking breaks at the end of the > summer. > > When I saw your post I read the logs but didn't see anything that > would indicate a problem. I vaguely remember some issues with hidden > SSID's that were fixed in 0.6.3 that the Ubuntu maintainer may not > have backported.
Are we talking about wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager, both, or something else? I'm happy to build/install the latest of whatever it is I need. > Can you try broadcasting your SSID and see if it > works? OK, when I get back home I'll try that. > What type of card are you using? IBM T60p laptop builtin wireless. I'm not sure who manufactures that part of the circuit, but it's a Centrino Duo so probably Intel. > I have seen a similar problem with an Atheros (Madwifi) card I have. > I resolved it by building the latest madwifi drivers by hand (Which > then required me to build the newer version of Network Manager). If > the problem is just that 0.6.2 can't reliably connect to hidden > networks then broadcasting your SSID would be an easier fix. Lots of networks in the neighborhood and I thought it would add security. > Not broadcasting your SSID is not more of a hindrance than a > security measure anyway... Can you explain why? Even with hiding I recently saw an unexpected DHCP client name, which may have been nothing, but it is why I switched from WEP to WPA. So if it _was_ someone on our network, I guess hiding didn't stop them. >> I am using Ubuntu Dapper, on which there is seemingly no >> wpa_supplicant.conf, which makes it pretty hard to relate any >> documentation I read to actual diagnosis on my machine. > > No need to post that, that is only needed if you are using some > unusual EAP combination. Yes, but I would like to understand how my software works and how to control it. When all the docs tell me to do this or that to my configuration file and I can't find it, I am left rather at sea. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
