wireless problem

[Lisa Kachold]

Sorry,

The source your firmware is running has the known WPA/WPA2 encryption issues.

I am fairly sure that this is not your 8.04 stack, but you might try
an updated system (or a neighbors).  My 8.04 behaves the same way,
while my 8.10 is fine with the same settings running to the same
"router".  Different firmware (or getting it exploited via script
kiddies running DoS remote firmware hacks - causes my connection to
drop.

You need to get an OpenWRT or upgraded firmware for that WRTG54GL

On 4/20/09, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at 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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>
>
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