WPA and All Other Connections Fail After Upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10

Rick Bilonick rab at nauticom.net
Tue Dec 2 14:05:00 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 07:01 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> Maybe:
> 
> <http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2BNMSetting8021x&btnG=Search>
> 
> These look related:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/290285
> [ Grayed out "Connect" button when using WPA2 Entreprise+TLS authentication]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/245184
> [NM-0.7] nm-connection-editor fails to set/read certificates settings]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/291242
> and probably many more.
> 
> You might want to uninstall network manager and install wicd instead
> just to see if all works that way. I also have a bcm43xx device (Dynex
> pcmcia card), and while I was able to get my wpa2 working with NM, I was
> unable to manage fixed IP's. So I switched to wicd and haven't looked
> back (yet :-).
> 
> http://apt.wicd.net/dists/intrepid/extras/
>   http://apt.wicd.net/pool/intrepid/extras/wicd_1.5.3_all.deb
> 
> or
> 
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php
> and replace
> deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras
> with
> deb http://apt.wicd.net intrepid extras
> 
> If that doesn't work out you can always uninstall and then reinstall NM.
> 
> 
> 

OK, I'm at the office. I've selected PEAP with TKIP so I can use WPA 2.
There is a panel for identity, password and "path to ca cert". I know
the identity and password (used these with NM) but what do I put in for
"path to ca cert"?

Rick B.





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