Wireless network on fedora netbook

jakspyder

jakspyder

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hey guys my mate brought his fancy new acer netbook into school today and we were trying to connect it to the schools wireless. now my other friend can do it fine on his windows laptop. we have the wep key and the proxy settings all right but it just wont connect. my teacher says his Ubuntu doesn't connect to protected networks but works fine on open networks! do you know of any ways to get this to work??

he also has ubuntu dual booted if you know how to work it on that. but that gives us the same result :(

please help :D
 
I think you'll get better answers on the Fedora forums.

It won't hurt to know the wireless chipset in use. Find out with
lspci
in a terminal window.

It could be crappy drivers, or a problem/bug/missing feature with Network Manager or whatever network management tool it's using.
 
Have you tried setting your card to promiscuous mode?

It's a good way to see if you're actually getting packets at all, it will help narrow down whether the card is working properly (drivers et al) or whether it's the protection giving the problem.

Your teacher is probably having trouble with getting the settings exactly right for the protected access. Is he using a GUI interface or command line to do it? I have set up a few from the command line and it can be a bit tricky - usually a matter of selecting the wrong security method (due to the endless flaws found in security there were several minor alterations to WPA and if you don't get exactly the right one it will quite often refuse to work with no explanation).
 
This is probably no help at all.

I installed ubuntu on my netbook last night as a dual boot. I had to uninstall the driver ubuntu installed on the samsung nc10 and install a new driver. Thankfully there was instructions as i am new to the linux world:)

Anway to get to the point, i tried about 10 times to input my wep key when all it wanted was the passphrase:p. That maybe is the issue.
 
atheos said:
This is probably no help at all.

I installed ubuntu on my netbook last night as a dual boot. I had to uninstall the driver ubuntu installed on the samsung nc10 and install a new driver. Thankfully there was instructions as i am new to the linux world:)

Anway to get to the point, i tried about 10 times to input my wep key when all it wanted was the passphrase:p. That maybe is the issue.
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lolz
 
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