Re: [Hampshire] FC9 WPA Wifi pain

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Author: John Cooper
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To: paul, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] FC9 WPA Wifi pain
Paul Stimpson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My adventure with FC9 continues and I seem to have encountered a problem with wifi on my Intel 4965abgn wireless card. I started a new job this qeek. There's no wired network at my desk and I can't get online with the office wifi which is secured with WPA:
>
> The card associates and demands credentials then KNetworkManager sits there spinning for a while before demanding the credentials again. /var/log/messages shows wpa_supplicant going from state 0 to 2, returning to state 0 then timing out and dmesg shows the link deauthenticating. It seems to work fine with WEP networks.
> This seems to be a known problem but about the only advice is to reboot and select the old kernel in grub. This doesn't fix it for me.
>
> I'd really appreciate your input. Thanks in advance.
>
> Paul.
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>

Have you tried the Intel driver?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2753&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go!

John.

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