My ongoing experiences with Ubuntu, and later Mythbuntu, as a media center with MythTV. I'm also using the system for a virtual machine server, a mediawiki server and a general all around home infrastructure base.

Showing posts with label wpa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wpa. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2008

WPA on Dell Inspiron 6000: No luck

My other system is a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop on which I also have Ubuntu 8.04 running. I tried moving my wireless to WPA today and had no luck getting the laptop working. Every time I entered the WPA passphrase, it would try to connect for 10 seconds and then prompt for the passphrase again.

I tried these directions to no avail.

I tried following the directions here and installing the latest and greatest network manager, but to no avail.

I tried disabling the Gnome Network Manager and following these directions, but no luck either.

This guy apparently just thinks I'm an idiot.

Anyone got WPA working on a Dell Inspiron 6000 with Ubuntu 8.04? Getting wireless working was a snap, but WPA is eluding me so far...

In case it maters, I have d a Broadcom BCM4318:
% lspci | grep Wireless
03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Update: Well the youtube guy was right, I'm an idiot :-) Turns out I must have had a cut'n'paste error when I set the password on my WPA network, so it worked from the machine I set it on (pasted the same password), but somehow I transcribed it wrong into my KeePass database. Once I got the right password, things work fine.