El 2013-03-19 a las 13:16 -0500, Dan Williams escribió: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 19:11 +0100, Camaleón wrote: (...) > > > NM minimally verifies the PSK, which by 802.11 standards is between 8 > > > and 63 ASCII characters inclusive. So you should be able to type > > > anything you want within those constraints, but clearly only one is your > > > real PSK. > > > > Oops! Okay, so what user inputs is not "bullet-proof". > > > > Anyway, this does not seem to be a problem of bad password. I was > > finally able to get connected to the AP as soon as I carry the nebook > > and put it next to the AP which is the problem I've always have had > > with this driver (brcmsmac). > > Yeah, that's a symptom of bad power control or bad gain or who knows > what in the driver. But also, make sure your antennas are connected > correctly :) I'm starting to think the embedded wireless adapter could have been damaged somehow. The fact is that the card worked fine until kernel 2.6.38 (IIRC), but afterwards... well, I had to connect an additional USB card. > > As soon as I back to another room, N-M asks me again for the pass-key > > and disconnects. > > NM 0.9.8 shouldn't do that; I bet you're not even getting to the point > where the 4-way handshake and password verification are done. NM 0.9.8 > will retry a few times, notify you and fail, then wait a couple minutes > and try again. It shouldn't ask for a password anymore in situations > like this. Debian Wheezy still has 0.9.4 but well, that's a minor issue ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
