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<H1>[Mageia-dev] problems connecting to new wlan access points</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Tue Apr 17 00:01:47 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Hugo Pereira Da Costa at 16/04/12 21:51 did gyre and
gimble:
><i> On 04/16/2012 10:14 PM, Mika Laitio wrote:
</I>>><i> I am always having problems for connecting to new access points with
</I>>><i> the drakconf. Drakconf is able to show up the list of access points just
</I>>><i> fine and also the config screen looks ok.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Bu when I select the new ap from the list and press connect button, I
</I>>><i> usually get error message from the connection failure.
</I>>><i> This will happen even if I try to push the connect button again after
</I>>><i> the first failure.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> But if I instead reboot the machine after the failed connect, the
</I>>><i> network will be up just fine on next boot.
</I>>><i> I think the problem is not related to AP encryption mode as this is
</I>>><i> happening for me both with the OpenWEP and WPA/WPA2 connections.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> At the moment I am testing with machine having Intel Centrino-Ultimate-N
</I>>><i> 6300 wlan, but I have earlier seen similar problems at least with intel
</I>>><i> 2200 BG that I had on Dell D610.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Mika
</I>><i> Hello,
</I>><i> just in case it helps:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I've been having the same problems on several computers/installations
</I>><i> (and actually, also with mga1), and could always fix it by removing
</I>><i> (urpme) all networkmanager packages. My personal (naive and non-dev)
</I>><i> understanding of the issue being that there are some conflicts between
</I>><i> networkmanager and drakconnect.
</I>
There are, but provided you disable NM, it should be OK and not run...
unless it can perhaps be bus activated without going via systemd...
hmmm, I wonder...
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