On Thursday 13 November 2008 01:57:05 Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow testers, > > I have a machine with wireless card that NetworkManager identifies but > cannot connect. The Administrator at school tried to connect it, but > gnome-keyring came out and asked for the password. I put in my own root > password, but the connection failed :(. The network is encrypted and it > has a key and he put the key, but gnome-keyring gets in the way and I am > denied a connection. What can I do to make this machine connect with > wireless? > > In the other case, when a wire is present it connects without problems. > > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_52cf9c16-aa07-4697-8df6-7b47eb9855f4 > (public) > > The machine has a wireless nic supported by Atheros ath5k driver > (Thanks to Mr. Linville and all other contributors to the project, the card > is identified and it tries to connect) > > The card is an > Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC > > I do not know the password to the gnome-keyring. The network adminstrator > can put the key in but that keyring pops up and destroys everything. On > windoze the machine picks up without problems. I would like to have the > same functionality on the Linux side if possible. > > Thank you in advance for all your help/suggestions/advice. > This may be related to the problems I described in my lengthy thread "Problem setting up wired networking" (wired got sorted, then wireless became problematic). Mine also uses the ath5k driver, and I seem to have problems passing the keys as well, so I'll be following your thread with interest. Anne
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