Re: Some progress with wpa_supplicant/madwifi

Ignoramus11107 <ignoramus11107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:25:13 -0700, Nexus7 <ac25kV@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 21, 10:43 pm, Ignoramus25943 <ignoramus25...@NOSPAM.
25943.invalid> wrote:
Very strange. I installed started the new dev version of
wpa_supplicant when I got home. It got to the stage of AUTHENTICATED,
...

You've got a lot of threads on this subject, so I'm not sure what
you've already tried, but...

Can you install network-manager-gnome and nm-applet and let them do
the work? These are Debian package names, so use the ones for your
distribution.

Yes, I did, it did not help much and opened four Network Manager icons
on my Gnome desktop, totally useless.

The issue that I narrowed down to, is that sometimes wpa_supplicant
gets authenticated (and then everything works), and sometimes it does
not (and then wifi does not work).

Yes. But that is of no help
Make sure that you are telling the system to use the same ESSID each time,
and taht that essid actually identifies the router you want to attach to (
eg there may be 12 "linksys" access points near you and your system is
picking one at random).
Once you are sure that you are trying to connect to the same access point
each time and that it is the correct access point, then look in the logs to
see if you are getting messages from wpa_suppicant. Also make sure that
your router actually has the password you think it has.


i
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