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    Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

    Thanks to everyone out there who ever tried to help me connect to my WPA2 router... way too many posts and threads to track them all down...

    So long story short, I'm halfway vacated from my office (soon to be my son's room) so the wired connection is gone, and the darn wireless just started working on its own! (I always had been disconnecting the ethernet before when I was testing... it never worked though)

    I seemingly tried absolutely every idea I could find, but in the end it must have been a kernel or some other system file update... I really don't know.

    Thanks again - I got a lot of good ideas here and learned a heck of a lot along the way.

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    Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

    Linux - the 'self repairing' OS!
    Windows no longer obstructs my view.
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
    "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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      Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

      I should add that a few things I did find along the way...
      (Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01))

      Code:
      wpa_passphrase <essid> <password>
      would give me an error with the password I had been trying to use for years... might have been a problem character... when I removed a ";" (i think) it then gave me a result. Note, that the old password worked fine on other devices.

      I also configured my /etc/network/interfaces like so:

      auto lo
      iface lo inet loopback

      auto wlan0
      iface wlan0 inet dhcp
      wpa-driver wext
      wpa-ssid MY-SSID
      wpa-ap-scan 1
      wpa-proto RSN
      wpa-pairwise CCMP
      wpa-group CCMP
      wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
      wpa-psk RESULT-FROM-ABOVE-COMMAND

      from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834

      And of course I am using Wicd.

      No clue if any of that helped. I MIGHT have also played with some of the /etc/modprobe.d/ files... it's really been too long.

      Edit: Oh yeah, I switched my router to only use Channel 6... I read that somewhere.

      Edit2: I also change my router to "WPA2 ONLY" instead of "Auto" (WPA or WPA2)... I just read that change I maybe helped someone.

      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/344022

      I should also say that although my router says I've got an n connection, its rate is less than a g connection...

      Seems to be affecting others too...
      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/298192
      http://osdir.com/ml/linux-wireless/2.../msg00059.html
      http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13141
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520535

      ...and I too can confirm that setting the router to "g and b only" results in full g speeds.
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        Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

        Originally posted by Snowhog
        Linux - the 'self repairing' OS!
        I'm still a little in shock... the last time this thing connected to my WPA2 router was when I used ndiswrapper (over two years ago)... I swear, I'm going to just uninstall Synaptic right this second before something breaks it!
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          Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

          It wasn't the package manager Synaptic, and, you wan't to keep it.
          Windows no longer obstructs my view.
          Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
          "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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            Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

            Originally posted by Snowhog
            It wasn't the package manager Synaptic, and, you wan't to keep it.
            What I meant was I scared to ever run another update for fear of a different updated package breaking my working wireless.
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              Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

              You may like to familiarize yourself with package 'pinning' to prevent upgrades.

              See Rog131s reply to How to keep a program from being updated in Kpackagekit or apt?
              Windows no longer obstructs my view.
              Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
              "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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                Re: Thanks every/anyone who helped w/ WPA2

                Originally posted by Snowhog
                You may like to familiarize yourself with package 'pinning' to prevent upgrades.

                See Rog131s reply to How to keep a program from being updated in Kpackagekit or apt?
                Well sure, if I knew what package to pin!

                (I'm just goofing mostly about that... I really do wish I knew how this started working though... I hate to think I'll re-install for 9.10 and find myself in trouble again.)
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