Wireless: network detected, but no connection

[NoOp]

On 11/10/2009 01:55 PM, Frank Lorenz wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 13:08 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> > The bad news is that I'm not able to replicate the same procedure on
>> > Ubuntu 9.10. By manually editing the network connection (on NM), if I
>> > select "No Security", the connection attempt fails as described in my
>> > original post. 
>> > If I select anything else (WPA, WEP,...), the GUI does not allow to
>> > leave a blank password field. 
>> > And there is no "Enable Roaming Mode" option to select or deselect.
>> > 
>> > Any ideas now?  :-)
>> 
>> I set my router temporarily to no security & changed the essid to 'x'.
> 
> (...)
> 
> - UPDATE -
> 
> That's what I did today:
> 
> - removed wicd
> - removed NetworkManager & gnome-NetworkManager
> - restarted the machine. No connection (of course)
> 
>>From terminal I manually configured the wlan interface
> 
> - sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "OpenNetwork"
> - sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel... etc...
> 
> followed by
> 
> - sudo dhclient
> 
> The machine obtained an IP address from the DHCP and...
> 
> - ping my gateway and it answered immediately :-)
> - opened Firefox and surfed the web :-)
> - downloaded a large file, listened to web-radio, etc. :-)))
> 
> It looks like NetworkManager and/or wicd are messing something with the
> wlan-stick. 
> 
> Is it possible that NetworkManager and wicd do not work with older
> wlan-sticks?

Could be... have a look through:
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=zd1201&field.actions.search=Search>
and see if you can spot something... meanwhile, I'm going to go find
Rashkee's other bottle of scotch :-)