dLink issues/ Wireless Passphrase

[Catalin David]

hippie dream wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am currently having trouble connecting to a new wireless network. I am
> using proprietary drivers (Atheros HAL) which have worked successfully for
> me on other networks. This difference here is that I am asked for the
> Wireless Network key.. When I enter the password, Ubuntu tries to connect
> for quite sometime then I am prompted to to reenter the same password again.
> I am using a WBR 1310 wireless router and Ubuntu 8.04. The wireless security
> is set to WEP 128-bit passphrase with open authentication. Do I need to
> configure something manually? I can "see" the network and am picking it up
> with a strong signal. Thanks in advance.
>
> Sam 
>   
I believe I had exactly the same problem you have because Network 
Manager does not (fully) support WPA2 and that is the way the encryption 
of my wireless router is set.

My solution: install Wicd http://wicd.sourceforge.net if you can :)

Greets,
Catalin