Re: connecting to a WPA secured wireless network often fails and takes a very long time

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:16 +0300, Ertugrul Harman wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I use Ubuntu 6.06 and NM 0.6.2 on my HP Pavilion dx5158ea to connect
> my WPA secured wireless network. 
> 
> My problem is, each time I try to connect it fails for several times
> after trying to connect each time for a few minutes. I keep trying to
> connect again and again (of course it asks me the same WPA key each
> time) and if I am lucky it can finally connect in the end, but it may
> cost me 5-10 minutes to get my connection (which has always been
> there) and all this effort can often be annoying. 
> 
> If I somehow lose my connection -deliberately or not- I experience all
> the same story from the beginning.
> 
> I was wondering if this is a known problem and/or do you know a
> solution for it, please?

Could you grab logs?  They will be in /var/log/messages most likely.
That would help determine what might be going wrong.

Dan

> Thank you. 
> 
> Regards,
> Ertugrul Harman
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