dLink issues/ Wireless Passphrase

[Mike McGinn]

On Saturday 13 September 2008 12:44:52 Catalin David wrote:
> 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
I find the Gnome network tools work fine with WPA2. I uninstalled the KDE 
ones.

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