On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:48:01PM -0000, Christiansen wrote: > I too have been experiencing these problems with the Atheros 5212 > Chipset (both IBM Thinkpad buildin and Netgear external PCMCIA/PCI > adapters) and network-manager when connecting to hidden access points - > though all my adapters work with K/Ubuntu 6.10. I have tried to locate > the problem, as I suspected the driver to be the problem (Ubuntu > Restricted Modules), but must admit I was suprised to find that it's the > network-manager or knetworkmanager that must be the problem. > > Yesterday I tried to use wpa_supplicant from the console line instead. First > I created a wpa_supplicant.conf file from the template under > /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/templates, then : > sudo iwconfig ath0 essid MYSID > sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd > sudo dhclient > > Works every time and after reboot too, so now I can't help suspecting > the network-manager. What's odd is that K/Ubuntu and network-manager > seems to work flawless with Intel 2915A/B/G and 2200B/G (Buildin IBM > Thinkpads) adapters against the same hidden access point. > > I seems that problems much alike this have been reported in several > other bugs (often under linux-restricted-modules) in launchpad under > Ubuntu and network-manager since version 7.04, but a great deal of the > bugs unfortunately don't state which WiFi chipset is used. But why can't > network manager handle the Atheros chipset against hidden AP, when it > can handle Intels flewlessly ? - could the difference between hardware > be the reason that this bug has not yet been solved ?. >
So what driver is used for your card? - Alexander -- A bug between Atheros Communications AR5212 802.11abg nic and Ubuntus network applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111068 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
