WIFI/ KNetworkmanager: very good at one netbook, weird behaviour at another one.

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

I had a problem with Wifi on my 2008 era MSI Wind netbook right out of the
box when I installed Kubuntu. It came with XP installed which of course
worked. After months of fruitless searching I finally replaced the Wifi
card with one the Kernel did support.

A drastic solution but sometimes it is the only one.

Sent from my Motorola Xoom running Ice Cream Sandwich
On Sep 29, 2012 7:19 AM, "Bas Roufs - En." <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Everybody,
>
> at present I am having a weird experience with WIFI. I have two "netbooks"
> with each a fully updated "fresh" install of Kubuntu 12.04, along with KDE
> 4.9.1.
>
> At one netbook, a Eee PC 1001 HA, KNetworkmanager functions in a excellent
> way, also when using WIFI.
>
> The other netbook is a HP Pavilion dm 1. Though I have there exactly the
> same
> OS-GUI combination, I cannot really rely on WIFI: not via KNetworkmanager,
> also not via "WICD". The networkmanager keeps stuck in the "configuring
> interface" stage and prompts for the password every five minutes. The only
> "workaround" I have found so far, is restarting the system, until it
> catches
> the WIFI signal - a sometimes time consuming procedure.
> A weird detail is the behaviour of the networkmanager when the system is
> connected to internet via a wired connection. Even in such a situation, the
> networkmanager keeps trying to establish also a wireless connection - each
> 5
> minutes it prompts for the password, while the "interface" is being
> "configured".
>
> My question is now: is there a way to get a more reliable WIFI connection
> for
> the HP Pavilion dm 1?
>
>
>
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