Linux Mint Wireless

[Enfield]

Hi (again)

I'm now on Linux Mint on my main PC (Debian previously) and so far I am quite impressed, it seems to be quicker...

But I have a major problem with the wireless card. It's funny because I usually have problems getting my usb wireless to work through ndiswrapper but that works no problem at all!

My network card is a PCI Edimax EW something or other which uses the RT2860 driver but for some reason the network-manager doesn't connect me to the network (good job).

The only way I can connect to the network is by typing in the following commands each time I login

iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
iwconfig ra0 essid BTHomeHub-2E74 key XXXXXXXXXX
dhclient

No matter what I do it will not connect unless I run the above iwpriv command!

Even after I've typed that in and connected successfully to the network then go into the network manager (network-manager-gnome) disconnect then try and re-connect using it it fails to pick up my hub!

At the moment I've done away with the network-manager as it's useless.


How do I fix this?

Any takers?

 

[.walls]

I don't know Mint and my atheros cards "just work" (not a debian user...), I'm afraid... but can you set up a wireless profile? at the very least... you could add those lines to rc.local - but that's a bit of a dirty hack...

 

[pingwing]

humm rc.local isnt too much of a dirty hack, many distros use it normally *cough gentoo cough* but an edimax card should be seen straight way.... (insert a confused look)

Basically i wouldnt be too worried as you can get onto the network with a command line action... Time to google mint and network card soon...

 

[.walls]

humm rc.local isnt too much of a dirty hack, many distros use it normally *cough gentoo cough* but an edimax card should be seen straight way.... (insert a confused look)

Basically i wouldnt be too worried as you can get onto the network with a command line action... Time to google mint and network card soon...

Yeah - I meant that there are much more elegant solutions