hp 2133 wont connect to wireless network (used to work).

Won't connect to my network at home, tough it used to!
When I enter the network key it wont connect & just asks for it again.
Running Linux not Windows.
Any ideas?
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote on Fri, 22 May 2009 11:33:49 +0100:
> Won't connect to my network at home, tough it used to!
> When I enter the network key it wont connect & just asks for it again.
> Running Linux not Windows.
> Any ideas?

Which distro of Linux? Also did you try running an open network for a
bit and see if it would connect up that way?

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In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) writes
>Won't connect to my network at home, tough it used to!
>When I enter the network key it wont connect & just asks for it again.
>Running Linux not Windows.
>Any ideas?
Diagnostic checks

I presume you have tried with the laptop close to the router to
eliminate external interference . Are you sure the 2213 is trying to
connect to your router and not the neighbours (a neighbour with a new
wireless setup and both of you are using the default SSID on the
router.)

Will any other wireless device connect to your router?
If Yes its probably the 2113
If No its probably the Router

If Router
Network key/wireless setup in the router corrupted?

Reboot Router

If still nothing try resetting the key and encryption in the router (
after another reboot?) then try connecting.

Its a possibility that the router has died.

If 2133

Will it connect wirelessly to any other network? If not you could have a
bad wireless driver,. Try reinstalling the wireless drivers.

If yes I would suggest changing the SSID for the network and trying
again in case the 2133 has cached the network key against the SSID and
can't be persuaded to change it.

The final possibility is a bad wireless card





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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Won't connect to my network at home, tough it used to!
> When I enter the network key it wont connect & just asks for it again.
> Running Linux not Windows.
> Any ideas?

Have you tried deleting the connection and setting it up anew?

The new network manager plasmoid in Jaunty/Kubuntu/KDE4 has quite a few
problems and that's one of them (3G dongles are another). I found deleting
the connection in the manager and starting over got it working again. I
don't know if there are similar problems in other distros/current versions.

Mysteriously, the old knetworkmanager (started from the command line) works
OK with the 3G dongle but not with WiFi. The plasmoid is the other way round
so things still all work but not smoothly. I'm hoping a bug fix update will
appear.

Good luck.


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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
>
> Won't connect to my network at home, tough it used to!
> When I enter the network key it wont connect & just asks for it again.
> Running Linux not Windows.
> Any ideas?

Which flavour of Linux? There's 100's of different distributions.


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Conor wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> says...
>> Won't connect to my network at home, tough it used to!
>> When I enter the network key it wont connect & just asks for it again.
>> Running Linux not Windows.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Which flavour of Linux? There's 100's of different distributions.
>
>
Done any upgrades recently?

there's been a lot of work integrating what used to be outboard drivers
into the kernel recently..