[ALUG] Laptop wifi help - need to automate dhclient

[Mark Rogers]

Mark Brier wrote:
> My suggestion would be to use NetworkManager if it is for a customer and
> they are going to be using gnome/kde. It makes connection to
> accesspoints a breeze and supports both WEP and WPA (if wpa_supplicant
> is also installed).
>   

Right, I've done this and it does improve things (the client didn't
collect the laptop Thursday, so with being out of the office yesterday I
gained this morning to work on it as he wants it at midday today).

However, I still have essentially the same problem; if I use
KNetworkManager to connect to the wlan, it sits and thinks for a long
time, before eventually popping up the login box into which I (re-)enter
the WEP key and this time it connects. The WEP key is stored so there is
obviously some delay in making a connection, which NetworkManager takes
as meaning the passphrase is wrong (annoyingly it doesn't then remember
the key and I have to re-enter it).

If I could introduce a delay somewhere so that it worked, or a retry,
that would be great. For the time being I'm going to have to just hope
its a problem with my access point and let the customer try it
themselves. I find the odds of that strategy working out for the best to
be fairly minimal.

[Aside: Yesterday we took delivery of a Belkin F5D7050 which I know to
be supported, except of-course I get the new 4000 model which has a new
and unsupported - even by ndiswraper it seems - chipset. The sooner the
Win* monopoly is removed and manufacturers consider other people the
better we'll all be.]

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Mark Rogers
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