Some progress - but not yet a win... The problem seems to be with the authentication. I'm on my wireless network now, but could only achieve this by turning my encryption off (a situation I'm not eager to keep up). Both my network, and the wireless network at work use WEP for encryption. I've had someone suggest to me that I'd have more success on a WPA network. If that's true, then it would go a ways to explaining why some people seem to have no trouble with this driver, and some have a world of problems. Until I have a WPA test case, though, it'll have to remain a theory. I've tried both entering my encryption key and essid in the NetworkManager, on the command line using iwconfig, and in the /etc/network/interfaces. Nothing seems to work -- although if anyone has time to kill and feels like explaining the difference between an open and shared key, I'm interested. There's nothing of the kind presented when I'm configuring my router. Cheers. On 27/09/2007, C.T. Paterson <i [ dot ] adore [ dot ] my [ dot ] 64 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > I also wanted to note that I've read > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/134515 which seems to describe > much of the problem I have. I installed wicd, but found some pretty > nasty performance problems were created by its use, and the comments > suggest the benefits of using it are minimal (offering up to a 20% > success rate on reconnects). > > Cheers. > > On 27/09/2007, C.T. Paterson <i [ dot ] adore [ dot ] my [ dot ] 64 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > With luck this will prove to be a short-lived problems, as I plan to > > upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy when it comes out in a few weeks, but in the > > mean time... > > > > I received my brand new Dell laptop yesterday. With glee, I took the > > preloaded Vista install out back, told it about the rabbits, and had > > an Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty installation up and running in short order. The > > Feisty install is meant to be a placeholder until the next release. > > Everything that I care about is up and working without problems, > > except my wireless. > > > > I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG PCI card, which is shown in lspci. > > > > paterson@bilbo:~$ lsmod | grep 3945 > > ipw3945 118816 1 > > ieee80211 34760 1 ipw3945 > > > > > > At work, and at home, I have been successful in connecting to a WEP > > secured wireless network, but signal strength drops to 0%, and I have > > an address of 0.0.0.0, broadcast is 0.0.0.0, network mask, default > > route, DNS are all 0.0.0.0 > > > > paterson@bilbo:~$ iwconfig > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > > eth1 unassociated ESSID:"Wireless1" > > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:16:C8:66:7D:50 > > Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm > > Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > > Power Management:off > > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:378 Rx invalid frag:0 > > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:201 Missed beacon:0 > > > > > > Googling has yielded little except to tell me many suffer the same > > problem, and many have no issues at all. Does anyone here have any > > wisdom to impart? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." > > -- Thomas Paine > > > > > -- > "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." > -- Thomas Paine > -- "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." -- Thomas Paine