On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert Holtzman
<holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
I'm having a problem connecting with encryption enabled.
My setup is a Desktop and a Dell latitude laptop both running Ubuntu
8.04 and both running wicd (at the moment). The desktop is hard wired to
the Linksys WRT54GL router.
So the desktop is not involved in wireless in any way except that you use it to change settings on the router/AP. It should not be affected by any of the wireless setings including encryption. Though one might wonder why you are running wicd on the desktop if it has a wired connection to the router.
If I configure the router with the web based
utility and don't enable encryption I can connect and access everything
on the net with no problem.
As expected and I presume it is true for both machines. Though you don't say which, only the laptop should be affected so I presume that is what you are reporting.
If I go back and enable wpa or wpa2 and
save, the connection is dropped.
Again, this should only happen on the laptop.
When I try to reconnect the error
message says that "this network requires encryption to be enabled" even
though the network is detected as having wpa or wpa2 encryption. Opening
advanced settings on wicd shows encryption to be enabled.
I have seen where the wireless network connection needs to be deleted so it can be "rediscovered" in order to have it ask you for the new passphrase instead of just failing with the old settings. You might try that. So on the laptop, go into the network setup, select the wireless connection and delete it. Now let the laptop re-discover your wireless signal and it should again ask you for the passphrase.
I tried
entering a random string as a pass phrase
when I set up the encryption
Huh? While you might choose a random passphrase when you change
settings on the router, you must match it exactly when you input it on
the laptop there is no automatic discovery as there were with early versions of WEP. Someone stomp on this if I am mis-speaking.
and also tried letting the configuration automatically do it, both with
no luck.
If you are talking about the easy setup software that came with the router/AP, you must be taling about doing this in Windows as I don't think Linksys provides Linux setup software.
Also, even when I connect unsecured, the desktop won't connect.
At this point I am beginning to look at the block wall in my back yard
and wonder if I can put the router through it.
Any help *greatly* appreciated.
--
Bob Holtzman
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