On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 00:07 +1000, David Whyte wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Gutsy on my brothers laptop tonight and everything went > OK, except the wireless network card doesn't seem to work too well. > It can detect my network and when I select my router using Network > Manager it pops up the encryption key dialog. I enter the key (i use > 64Bit Hex) and the icon in the status tray shows that it is trying to > connect, however, it always fails. Sometimes, after trying a couple > of times, NM crashes and the laptop starts to behave wierd (i.e. > System tools don't show when started, commands run in the terminal > fail to execute, etc) and I have to reboot. > > I don't think this is a driver issue as I am at least finding the > router and it identifies that it is encrypted, but I have been stumped > all night. I am using the acx driver, since this is a D-Link DWL-650+ > PCMCIA card. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Would it be worth trying the Ndiswrapper > and would that still behave OK with NM? Is Ndis as hard to configure > as all the different How-Tos make out? > > Any help is appreciated. > > Ta, > Whytey
I don't know if this is any help, but I had similar troubles on a Windows laptop, finally able to connect once I disabled security on the router, at least it narrowed down the problem for me. I finally restricted the wireless network to allow only specified MAC addresses. Greg. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
