Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-15 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 15 July 2010 10:26:05 John Frankish wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 13:13 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wirel

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-15 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 13:13 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network > > Oh dear!! > > Setting my granddaughter'

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-15 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 15 July 2010 08:53:03 John Frankish wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 11:40 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-15 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 11:40 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network > > On Thursday 15 July 2010 05:08:13 John Frankish wrote

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-15 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 15 July 2010 05:08:13 John Frankish wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 18:46 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wir

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-14 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 18:46 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network > > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 08:41:58 John Frankish wrote: >

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-14 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Why not try uninstalling Network Mangler and using someother method - e.g. WICD (my own preferred solution), /etc/network/interfaces or some other manager? Lisi +1 for WICD With NetworkManager I faced some failures to connect to the (public so no WEP or WAP) Wifi in my favorite bar : fe

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-13 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Lisi wrote: > > Why not try uninstalling Network Mangler and using someother method - e.g. > WICD (my own preferred solution), /etc/network/interfaces or some other > manager? > > Lisi > +1. WICD solved a similar problem on my girlfriend's laptop. NM couldn't c

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 08:41:58 John Frankish wrote: > No, I have not tried turning WEP off, but on the same machine booted in > tinycorelinux I can connect, albeit after a couple of attempts and not > using NetworkManager. > > Also on three other laptops (none of which use the same hardware) and

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-13 Thread John
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:41 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: John [mailto:nesre...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 11:33 >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireles

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-13 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: John [mailto:nesre...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 11:33 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:14 AM, John Frankish > wrote: >

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-13 Thread John
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:14 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > > Hmm - now I see the following in dmesg: > > ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart > > There are many, many hits for this in google, but no solutions... > I assume you have gotten things working with WEP turned off? Go th

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-13 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: John Frankish [mailto:j-frank...@slb.com] > Sent: Monday, 12 July, 2010 08:05 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network > > > > > -Original Message- > >

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-11 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: Felipe Sateler [mailto:fsate...@debian.org] > Sent: Sunday, 11 July, 2010 21:46 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network > > On 10/07/10 01:49, John Frankish wrote: > > H

Re: Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network)

2010-07-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/11/2010 06:11 AM, John Frankish wrote: -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] Sent: Sunday, 11 July, 2010 14:04 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network) On 07/10/2010

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 10/07/10 01:49, John Frankish wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with wired/wireless > connections. > > Things work fine with the wired connection, but although NetworkManager > displays several available wireless networks, it will not connect. > > The pr

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-11 Thread John
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:49 AM, John Frankish wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with wired/wireless > connections. > > Things work fine with the wired connection, but although NetworkManager > displays several available wireless networks, it will not connect

RE: Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network)

2010-07-11 Thread John Frankish
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Sunday, 11 July, 2010 14:04 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect > to Wireless Network) > > On 07/10/2010 11:12

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:09:37 +0200, John Frankish wrote: >> Mmm, try by right-clicking on NM icon and select "Edit connections", >> then go to the "Wireless" tab and try to add it from here. >> > Thanks for the suggestion - I'd already tried that with the same result > - i.e. that as soon as I se

Re: Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network)

2010-07-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/10/2010 11:12 PM, John Frankish wrote: [snip] According to the IEEE, WEP-40 and WEP-104 "have been deprecated as they fail to meet their security goals". You should instead use WPA2-AES or, if that is not possible, WPA2-PSK. Thanks for the suggestion, but my old router does not suppo

RE: Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network)

2010-07-10 Thread John Frankish
> On 07/10/2010 12:49 AM, John Frankish wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with > > wired/wireless connections. > > > > Things work fine with the wired connection, but although > > NetworkManager displays several available wireless networks, it will > > n

RE: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-10 Thread John Frankish
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:49:41 +0200, John Frankish wrote: > > > I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with > > wired/wireless connections. > > > > Things work fine with the wired connection, but although > > NetworkManager displays several available wireless networks, it will not

Wireless Encryption (was Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network)

2010-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/10/2010 12:49 AM, John Frankish wrote: Hi, I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with wired/wireless connections. Things work fine with the wired connection, but although NetworkManager displays several available wireless networks, it will not connect. The problem is th

Re: NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:49:41 +0200, John Frankish wrote: > I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with > wired/wireless connections. > > Things work fine with the wired connection, but although NetworkManager > displays several available wireless networks, it will not connect. > >

NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

2010-07-09 Thread John Frankish
Hi, I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with wired/wireless connections. Things work fine with the wired connection, but although NetworkManager displays several available wireless networks, it will not connect. The problem is that when I select the available network to join,