[Tfug] More wireless woes

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Use FreeBSD :-) 6.2 Stable of 7.0 Current :-) Just joking...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wafa Hakim Orman" <wafa1024 at gmail.com>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 08:48
Subject: [Tfug] More wireless woes


> After all that agony trying to use my Motorola wireless card with
> ndiswrapper on a dynamic WEP network (it never did work), I bit the
> bullet & bought a new wireless card that, from everything I read, was
> _supposed_ to work out of the box.
>
> Since I don't expect anyone to remember the previous thread, I'm
> running Kubuntu Feisty on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a new
> Netgear WG115T wireless card that uses the Atheros chipset and Madwifi
> driver, both of which are _supposed_ to work seamlessly on Ubuntu.The
> wireless network uses dynamic WEP wireless with EAP/MSCHAPV2
> authentication.
> (The old card could connect just fine, but only in Windows --
> ndiswrapper, from everything I
> read, could not work with wpa_supplicant using dynamic WEP, and did
> not work with xsupplicant at all.)
>
> Now, having installed the new driver, after a series of failed
> attempts to use network manager, wpa_supplicant from the command line,
> wicd, & kwlan, (uninstalling the others first each time) the card
> basically causes the kernel to freeze completely a few minutes after
> bootup. Sometimes it'll start attempting to authenticate but the most
> I've gotten out of it is about 3 to 4 minutes. I removed the
> ndiswrapper modules & blacklisted them because I worried they might be
> conflicting; no luck. Also tried removing madwifi-tools & leaving only
> the driver, installing wpasupplicant separately; no luck. Abandon all
> GUIs & work exclusively from the command line -- authentication starts
> but the freeze happens anyway. lsmod shows the drivers seem to be
> loading fine. I would paste the lsmod output if the computer remained
> active long enough for me to copy & paste it into a file; for now
> you'll have to take my word for it.
>
>  I googled the problem & it was suggested that people try the 386
> kernel & not the generic kernel, since the generic was known to have
> issues. However, I never had the generic kernel -- mine was always the
> 386. (I checked.) Another suggestion was hardware issues,  but it
> works perfectly on Windows so I know that is not the case.
>
> Oh, and it always freezes instantly if I dare to insert the wireless
> card while the computer is on, before the card's lights come on. Eject
> the card & the screen goes blank. Poof.
>
>
> Does anyone have an idea what might be going on, & what I could do to fix
it?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Wafa.
>
>
>
> -- 
> "So be it."
>                   --Kurt Vonnegut
>
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