Public bug reported: I have tried Hardy on two computers which have wireless interfaces which both previously worked fine with earlier versions of Kubuntu. In both cases, the symptoms are identical:
KNetworkManager sees the Access Point and gives a good indication of signal strength. It also sees other Access Points in the area. However, when I enter the WEP key, it times out with a failure message. If I then try to do the settings the other way round, eg using the Network Settings dialog in the System Settings application, I can enter all the data, (including the WEP key), but wireless is not properly enabled (eg it doesn't provide a route to the internet). In previous versions of Kubuntu, I've always found that after this initial setup a reboot is needed, to get wireless to work. In this case all the fields in the Network Settings dialog are blank again after a restart. If I exit the System Settings application and restart it without a reboot, the settings remain, (but still won't work). I've tried to disable and re-enable the network before rebooting, but this has no effect. I can get wireless to work using the information at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-troubleshoot-wireless-network- connection-in-ubuntu.html, providing I shut down KNetworkManager first, but can't work out how to make it persistent across reboots. If I try to do the settings manually with KNetworkManager still running I get major errors logged in kern.log and other log files. I have also reported this at the KDE bug tracker see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161606, because the site came up when I clicked on Report a Bug in the Help Menu. However, it occurs to me that this may be a Hardy problem, rather than a (K)Ubuntu one. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Wireless Network settings not persistent and not effective https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226487 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs