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knetworkmanager package

[Feisty] Knetworkmanager refuses to work with wifi

Bug #104414 reported by "Kosmonaut" Bernd Müller on 2007-04-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #134660: Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	knetworkmanager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: knetworkmanager

Hi!

Knetworkmanager refuses to work with my two wifi cards. I got a rtl8180 and a netgear wg511v2, both cards are detectet by kneworkmanager: essids are visible. A connection is still not possible. With my rtl8180-card, knetworkmanager seems to build up the connection , then at 28% the process stops and then fails. Knetwokmanager falls back to my ethernet networkcard. Similar situation with the wg511v2, here the connection fails immidiatly.
With wlassistent there is no problem at all. Connections with both cards are possible.
How could I focus this problems, what logsfiles do you need to analyse this behavior.

Greetings.
(Sorry for my poor english;-))

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Tim Webster (tdwebste) wrote on 2007-04-08:

I am referencing this to
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/78037

I am also using an rt 8180 card.

I have a similar problem with kwifimanager and knetworkmanager.
And kwlan also does not work for me.

For wlassistant to work it requires network-manager.
wlassistant does not have a dependency on network-manager, but it I
think it should.

Please try the manual procedure suggessted in bug 78037

sudo ifconfig [interface] down
sudo iwconfig [interface] essid [essid] key [key]
sudo ifconfig [interface] up
sudo dhclient3 [interface]

then try knetworkmanager

Also note you can use wlassistant to establish a wifi internet connection once. Then use knetworkmanager after the interface has been reset by wlassistant.

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Manual work arounds including manually resetting the wifi interface or using wlassistant to reset the interface. Are NOT a bug fix!

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Tim Webster (tdwebste) wrote on 2007-04-10: Re: [Bug 104414] Re: [Feisty] Knetworkmanager refuses to work with wifi

Here is a solution from bug
that has worked for everyone using rtl 8180 who has tried it.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?auth=DQAAAHQAAACkjgY2eQNTnNtsZxg3c868BUtVYDY9uTx8OYfKs5g2W7rMcujm95K8QHmiSyZW3V4nOXSSmzule700jP8X610Hl452J_sLb-hDOLK-iWmjKbbwmeYz6UPi0NKcE-9sdxa_XlioBhCXZM4F6_A0xe7BKEL1Pk8otlx4sKvZFaSaDg

It envolves adding a junk char to then end of the wifi ssid.
Since wlassistant works. And that I playing with kwifinetwork, "just
right" I was able to have it show that it scanned in found the wifi
ssid with the last char missing.

Sorry I did not recorded the kwifinetwork sequence of steps leading to
it showing a "found" wifi ssid missing the last char.

On 4/9/07, Neil Grogan <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 78037 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78037
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 78037
> rt2500 in feisty: problem & solution
>
> --
> [Feisty] Knetworkmanager refuses to work with wifi
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104414
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Tim Webster (tdwebste) wrote on 2007-04-16:

The work around for rtl8180 is to add a junk char after the end of the essid
see bug 78255. This work around also solves this bug 104414.

I think bug 78255 and related bug 104414 are not
duplicates of 78037.

On 4/10/07, Tim Webster <email address hidden> wrote:
> Here is a solution from bug
> that has worked for everyone using rtl 8180 who has tried it.
>
> https://mail.google.com/mail/?auth=DQAAAHQAAACkjgY2eQNTnNtsZxg3c868BUtVYDY9uTx8OYfKs5g2W7rMcujm95K8QHmiSyZW3V4nOXSSmzule700jP8X610Hl452J_sLb-hDOLK-iWmjKbbwmeYz6UPi0NKcE-9sdxa_XlioBhCXZM4F6_A0xe7BKEL1Pk8otlx4sKvZFaSaDg
>
> It envolves adding a junk char to then end of the wifi ssid.
> Since wlassistant works. And that I playing with kwifinetwork, "just
> right" I was able to have it show that it scanned in found the wifi
> ssid with the last char missing.
>
> Sorry I did not recorded the kwifinetwork sequence of steps leading to
> it showing a "found" wifi ssid missing the last char.
>
>
> On 4/9/07, Neil Grogan <email address hidden> wrote:
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 78037 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78037
> >
> > ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 78037
> > rt2500 in feisty: problem & solution
> >
> > --
> > [Feisty] Knetworkmanager refuses to work with wifi
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104414
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>