I got a new router/access point and have been going nuts trying to get my laptop to connect via wireless. I previously had static IP addresses but my wife wanted me to change to dhcp to make things easier for her windows machines. Well, her machines are just fine. The dos I've read said that fr KDE I should use knetworkmanager, which I'm trying to do. I finally left my eth0 config in /etc/network/interfaces and intend for knetworkmanager to just handle wireless. I think I'm getting close as I now get a popup window for the pass phrase but still no connection. Below is the syslog during one try to connect. Can someone tell me what this means?
Richard Harke Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'home' Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4 (reason 0) Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0) Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'home' has security, but secrets are required. Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6 (reason 0) Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 6 -> 9 (reason 7) Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (oaktree) Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Marking connection 'home' invalid. Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed. Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0) Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 0).
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