Hi folk,
Reporting what I have found with wireless and Feisty.
Been hit by Knetworkmanager halting at 28% when activating a wireless connection? Yeah, me too!
Doing a little bit of playing has revealed this is very much a router negotiation issue (sadly, it's on Feisty's side). I have a perfectly good Netgear DG834 (version 1 on latest firmware) and nothing I do to the laptop (housing a Netgear WG511) will allow connection to it. Configured a Belkin54G as the access point and connected without problems.
This explains why there are many who are reporting absolutely no problems with Knetworkmanager, and others wanting to pull their hair out. It's all down to Feisty's / the kernel's (in)ability to negotiate with routers. Maybe others who have had success could post their working combinations such that we could build a list of working stuff until they repair the wireless network negotiation bit?
It also affects the ability to roam as some hotspots connect and others don't (and, yes, an airport gets exceptionally frustrating as the make of access point changes from one area of the terminal to another!).
WEP both 40/64 and 128bit work too, however, WPA-PSK is decidedly broken. Workaround at present is clearly suggested (from all the posts where success has been reported) by operating WEP (yikes, nothing like opening yourself up to hacks! so please also put MAC access control in place).
Finally: If someone from the (K)Ubuntu team does read this, please post IN BIG, BOLD LETTERS when you have repaired the faulty bits so that we can remove the negative bits of publicity such a wonderful operating system and suite of programs is getting.
God bless,
M.
Reporting what I have found with wireless and Feisty.
Been hit by Knetworkmanager halting at 28% when activating a wireless connection? Yeah, me too!
Doing a little bit of playing has revealed this is very much a router negotiation issue (sadly, it's on Feisty's side). I have a perfectly good Netgear DG834 (version 1 on latest firmware) and nothing I do to the laptop (housing a Netgear WG511) will allow connection to it. Configured a Belkin54G as the access point and connected without problems.
This explains why there are many who are reporting absolutely no problems with Knetworkmanager, and others wanting to pull their hair out. It's all down to Feisty's / the kernel's (in)ability to negotiate with routers. Maybe others who have had success could post their working combinations such that we could build a list of working stuff until they repair the wireless network negotiation bit?
It also affects the ability to roam as some hotspots connect and others don't (and, yes, an airport gets exceptionally frustrating as the make of access point changes from one area of the terminal to another!).
WEP both 40/64 and 128bit work too, however, WPA-PSK is decidedly broken. Workaround at present is clearly suggested (from all the posts where success has been reported) by operating WEP (yikes, nothing like opening yourself up to hacks! so please also put MAC access control in place).
Finally: If someone from the (K)Ubuntu team does read this, please post IN BIG, BOLD LETTERS when you have repaired the faulty bits so that we can remove the negative bits of publicity such a wonderful operating system and suite of programs is getting.
God bless,
M.
until either this is fixed or I find a new distro. I need my internet access which is via a wireless router. This one problem has made K/X/Ubuntu completely unusable for me. At the moment Windows 9x would be more useful. >
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