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

[David Abrahams <dave boost-consulting com>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> 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.

On Ubuntu it's /var/log/syslog.  /var/log/messages doesn't get any NM
messages AFAICT.

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Dave Abrahams
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