Re: Hidden ESSID, WPA-Enterprise -- troubleshooting help?

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Tony Espy wrote:
> On 10/15/2009 02:32 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>> Dan Williams wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 10:57 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>>>> Is there a document someplace that tells me what information would be
>>>> helpful to troubleshoot a connection like this that will not work? I'm
>>>> trying to connect via the plasma NetworkManager applet... have not
>>>> tried
>>>> other means. Would love to have this working, though, as it feels silly
>>>> using 3G in the office.
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>>> First, what kernel version are you using, and what wifi driver and
>>> hardware?  That has a lot to do with this issue.
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>> Linux 2.6.30-020630rc7-generic #020630rc7 SMP
>> iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for
>> Linux, 1.2.26ks
>> network-manager                          0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
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> 
> Ryan --
> 
> If you're going to look into this, you might want to work with Kubuntu
> Karmic Beta + latest updates.
> 
> There's a similar problem re: hidden networks on Kubuntu that I looked
> at earlier in the week.
> 
> Checkout the following bug for details:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/444262
> 
> I found that a Connection was getting created for the hidden network,
> but that knetwork-manager didn't seem to ever send seem to send an
> ActivateConnection DBUS message to NM ( or if it did, it failed ).

Yeah, I was using the plasma applet initially. Now, I'm using the
knetworkmanager which I've noticed does absolutely nothing for the
hidden network (which makes it even more impossible to test -- at least
before I tried it and it didn't work). I ran NetworkManager --no-daemon
and nothing happened when I clicked.

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