On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I'm on a WEP network which worked fine on 8.2.0, > > but we simply can't connect on 8.2.1. The AP is a Billion brand. I can see > > the network, and am prompted for the password, but no joy! > > > > I've also booted three times and each time the two freshly imaged 8.2.1 > > laptops don't see each other. I had previously tried just installing the > > kernel rpm associated with ticket #9048, and noticed the same issue, so it > > might be a problem with that package, which is a new kernel :) > > For myself, I wanted to connect a staging-21 system to a wireless > AP, but *could not* - no matter what I tried. [When I tried build > 767 with the identical hardware and setup, it connected easily.] > Ticket #9222 has been written about the WEP problem. I wrote #9223 > (which might be a duplicate of #9222).
I just performed some more testing of this for Pia. When connecting through the GUI I can't connect to the AP at all using WEP. It simply keeps asking for the encryption key. However I can connect fine from the command line by doing iwconfig eth0 essid blah iwconfig eth0 mode Managed iwconfig eth0 key 1235... dhclient If I run iwconfig while the GUI is trying to connect I never see the encryption key set. So maybe network-manager isn't successfully setting the WEP key on the interface? Cheers, John -- John Blog http://www.inodes.org/blog OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel