Trying to connect from the command line (CLI) should give you more detail. I don't run Arch - I've used Opensuse, Mint, Vector, and now everything is ubuntu - and I don't know what desktop you are using. Here is why I ask - I recently had a problem with a Toshiba laptop not connecting to unsecured wireless networks. Secured worked.
When I got friends to help, and we tried to connect via the CLI, we noticed that the system was assigning a series of garbage characters as the network ESSID (SSID). It looked to me like the machine was "hearing" the network, and getting the correct SSID, but then using the garbage string as the SSID when it tried to connect. A Google on SSID and garbage string took me to a bug report for Network Manager (gnome desktop). The symptoms in the bug report were somewhat different - but I uninstalled Network Manager, and just used Wicd, and voila - connected fine. Notice, though, that even though we tried connecting from the CLI - the Network manager was still working somewhere, and it was inserting these garbage strings. We did not try booting into a terminal (CLI) environment - which you might want to do if you can't get things to work from a terminal opened from your desktop. On Friday, February 10, 2012 1:53:45 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > I have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop running Arch with an internal ipw2100 > chipset and a D-Link DWL600 Atheros based PCMCIA wifi card. Both will grab > an IP fine from WPA2 encrypted networks, but not WPA encrypted networks. > Back when the laptop had Win XP on it, there were no issues. Anybody have > a clue why this is the case and what I'd need to do to get it to work. BTW > - Wicd goes through the authentication process and queries for an IP > address from the router (Linksys WRT54G2 V1) and times out. I've tried it > several times with no success. HELP!!! > > Thanks, > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
