Wireless network card won't connect to router

[Gregory Storer]

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 00:07 +1000, David Whyte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Gutsy on my brothers laptop tonight and everything went
> OK, except the wireless network card doesn't seem to work too well.
> It can detect my network and when I select my router using Network
> Manager it pops up the encryption key dialog.  I enter the key (i use
> 64Bit Hex) and the icon in the status tray shows that it is trying to
> connect, however, it always fails.  Sometimes, after trying a couple
> of times, NM crashes and the laptop starts to behave wierd (i.e.
> System tools don't show when started, commands run in the terminal
> fail to execute, etc) and I have to reboot.
> 
> I don't think this is a driver issue as I am at least finding the
> router and it identifies that it is encrypted, but I have been stumped
> all night.  I am using the acx driver, since this is a D-Link DWL-650+
> PCMCIA card.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?  Would it be worth trying the Ndiswrapper
> and would that still behave OK with NM?  Is Ndis as hard to configure
> as all the different How-Tos make out?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Ta,
> Whytey

I don't know if this is any help, but I had similar troubles on a
Windows laptop, finally able to connect once I disabled security on the
router, at least it narrowed down the problem for me.  I finally
restricted the wireless network to allow only specified MAC addresses.

Greg.