Knetwork manager fails at 28%.....

[mykrobinson]

I have installed Kubuntu Dapper on my HP Pavilion ze2308 laptop. I enabled the broadcom wifi by blacklisting the bcm43xx driver and using ndiswrapper with the windows driver instead. The only way i can get it to connect is by issuing

dhclient eth1

in the console.

I have edited the file /etc/network/interfaces and commented out eth0 and eth1, my wired and wireless connections, respectively.. Upon reboot, networkmanager detects both. It works fine for plugging and unplugging my wired connection. It even detects my wireless network properly.. But, when i try to connect, it gets to 28%, stalls, then eventually gives up...

I have read that other people are having similar problems, with all of them happening at 28%. But i have not found a solution yet..

Please advise as to how i can effectively use KnetworkManager.

Thanks,
-myk

[mappy24]

Re: Knetwork manager fails at 28%.....

I've been tearing my hair out over this exact same issue for days.

I eventually traced the problem to the SSID being hidden on my router (Netgear DG834GT), it seemed to cause problems with detecting the kind of encryption (TKIP etc).

I turned the SSID broadcast on, fed KNetworkManager the WPA key and off it went.

However, it still fails to connect immediately after boot, but at least it connects on my first attempt after this.

Hope this helps.

[mka1]

Re: Knetwork manager fails at 28%.....

I have the same problem, however, the solution is not the missing ssid broadcast - it's turned on...

It worked before, even after the edgy update - just recently it stopped working.

Can anybody help?