rt2500 cannot connect to WPA encrypted network with fiesty

[Keir Lawson]

Binary package hint: rt2500

My rt2500 card fails to connect to my wireless router under feisty, where it previously worked with edgy, I have tried with both a static IP and using DHCP

[wilderness wanderer (jdmfilter-spam)]

Same problem here. rt2500 pci card worked fine under Edgy. Upgraded via alt CD and no network. Numerous attempts at getting network manager to sort it out failed. I uninstalled network manager and it still will not connect via the Gnome network GUI. Note that this is with WEP encryption.

I _am_ able to connect via the command line:

sudo ifconfig ra0 down
sudo iwconfig ra0 essid blahblahblah key hexblahblah
sudo dhclient ra0

However upon reboot no network again. I've tried putting config into /etc/network/interfaces but that hasn't worked either (though I'm not sure as to the proper syntax there)

[wilderness wanderer (jdmfilter-spam)]

I found this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/37120

Syntax to manually configure in /etc/network/interfaces

iface ra0 inet dhcp
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "MyRouterName"
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
        pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="MySecretPassword
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
auto ra0

Since I am only using WEP, modified to:

iface ra0 inet dhcp
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "MyRouterName"
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 key "MyKeyInHex"
        pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
        pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
auto ra0

Now I have wireless connectivity which survives a reboot.

[wilderness wanderer (jdmfilter-spam)]

see also bugs 78037 and 95828

[Keir Lawson (keirlawson)]

My card was already configured as you suggest above, the solutions you posted do not seem to work for WPA

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

 Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #37120 and is being marked as such. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.