I think that I've identified the problem with the Sony Vaio not connecting
to my WAP, but I've no idea how to fix it.
First, I changed the PSK password on the WAP to a five-digit hex number[1]
and rebooted the router after saving the change. Second, I changed the PSK
password in
On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
# WPA protected network, supply your own ESSID and WPAPSK here:
network={
scan_ssid=0
ssid=AESi
proto=WPA RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
psk=1a2b3c4d5e
priority=10
}
The examples I
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, Russell Johnson wrote:
The examples I find online show the psk keyword with a password inside
quotes. Have you tried that?
Russell,
The .conf file had the your ESSID here in quotes, but not the PSK. I
assumed that was meaningful. Anyway, my Web searches found others
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, Ken Stephens wrote:
Do you have MAC address restrictions set on your router? This one caught
me when I got my new laptop home.
Ken,
Sigh. I thought that was it because this new laptop does not have its MAC
address in the WAP access list. So, I took off the three
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Mike Connors wrote:
There looks to be a bug w. wicd-1.7.0 after an upgrade to the
network-manager package. Some suggested fixes are use a lower encryption
method, downgrade wicd, uninstall newtwork-manager. Relevant links to info
below:
Thank you, Mike. I'll look at
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Mike Connors wrote:
Some suggested fixes are use a lower encryption method, downgrade wicd,
I replaced wicd-1.7.0 with -1.6.2.1 from Slackware-13.0 and saw the same
results. I'll look now at the URLs you listed.
Rich
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:
What might I be doing incorrectly here? This is the last hurdle in the
race to get this new laptop fully up and running.
Methings I've a protocol mis-match between the WAP and the laptop.
On the Asus WL-520GC for Authentication Method I selected
I hope someone here is fluent in wicd 'cause I can't figure out the
solution to a problem.
Context: new Sony Vaio laptop running Slackware-13.37/x86_64 with
wicd-1.7.0.
When invoked with 'wicd-client -n' from the command line, up pops the
wicd
network manager showing our local AP
