Wifi can see router but wont connect

[mike_cjo]

Hi,

I have recently upgraded from hardy to intrepid.

With hardy my wifi worked perfectly straight out the box.

Since the upgrade to intrepid it wont connect.

I can see my router plus several neighbors ones, it shows the signal strength as well.

But it wont connect! Im haveing to use a wired connection at the mo which isnt great on a laptop!

What information do i need to give to help diagnose this problem?

Many thanks
Mike

[Guest]

Re: Wifi can see router but wont connect

Hi

I had the exact same problem. Wicd fixed the problem for me.

Best regards
Lars

[AlanR8]

Re: Wifi can see router but wont connect

This may be a bit out of "left field" but I was at my son's house this morning waiting for a service repair man...parents have their uses!

He has a BT HomeHub as his wired and wireless router that I set up for him a couple of weeks ago. He's running Kubuntu 8.04 so has KDE3.*.*. All went well and I made a note of the WPA key.

This morning I booted his computer, found the note on his desktop with the key and then made a copy on my own machine. Then went to KnetworkManager, found all the local wireless networks, selected his and then copied and pasted the key.

Would not connect. I spent an hour fiddling around with no joy so started out from scratch but this time I physically typed the key. Guess what........immediate connection!

[maestrobwh1]

Re: Wifi can see router but wont connect

Do you all have atheros cards in your computers "ath0"

I had the exact same symptoms, and ended up having to pull out my atheros card and put the broadcom card back in and it works.

I know there are workarounds for atheros, but it makes me angry that something that simply worked out of the box since at least Ubuntu 6.06 does not seem to.

[Guest]

Re: Wifi can see router but wont connect

hi to all. this is my first post here. i'm enrico and write from italy.

i've got a similar problem on the sony vaio wgn21z of my girlfriend.
i use kubuntu since 6.10, and i don't have the wifi connection at home...

i installed yesterday kubuntu 8.10 on that laptop.

always is ok, but i cant connect to the router/modem adsl.

i added a new wlan connection in knetworkmanager with essid e wpa or wep key.
the connection is up and signal at 100%, but locked, and there's no way to unlock it.
knetworkmanager shows the locked simbol on the list of wlan connection available.

the wifi card is up and ok...ani ideas?