Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #318286
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 318286

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ktp420 (ktp420) wrote :

I was able to get T30 working with WPA2 after upgrading firmware and blacklisting orinoco drivers. Here is what I did:

I used following site to find the the firmware on Prism 2.5:

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/

Then in windows, I upgraded the firmware to 1.8.2. I tried to upgrade in linux but was giving some issues.

Disabled orinoco drivers since they don't support WPA and also interfere with hostap drivers by adding following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.cfg

blacklist prism2_pci
blacklist orinoco
blacklist orinoco_pci

Rebooted the system.

On the router, I enabled broadcast SSID. I noticed that if SSID is not broadcasted, then NetworkManager does not display the signal strength.

Connected to wireless and NetworkManager detected the correct security/encryption and asked for the password/key.