I took delivery of a brand-new Inspiron 1545 on August 28, 2009. It came installed with Ubuntu 8.10. From the get-go I have not been able to connect to my WPA-enabled wireless network. I'm able to connect with my Macbooks and with my Toshiba tablet PCs but not with Ubuntu 8.10.
Making my SSID visible did not work. I encounter the same problem that others have described: after submitting the password and clicking "Connect", it tries for a while and then pops back up with the connect dialog. I AM able to connect to the WEP router at the local coffee-shop so wireless is working; everything points to WPA. Also, when I run wpa_passphrase using my SSID and passphrase, it returns the same hash value that I see in the connection dialog when I click the "Show password" checkbox. The previous post mentions a patch but it was too cryptic for me to understand. Can somebody shed more light on this patch (i.e. is it a patch to my Dell Inspiron or to my wireless router, and what do I do with it?). Thanks -nendo -- BCM4312/Ubuntu 8.10/Dell Inspiron 1525 wireless not working if SSID hidden https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307637 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
