network manager won't connect to my WPA network

[Stephen Rasku]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I find this very frustrating since I had this working a couple of days ago using the same laptop, key, and router. Now it doesn't connect.

This is for network-manager 0.6.6 -0ubuntu5 on Hardy Heron. I am using a T61P laptop. According to lspci, this is the wireless controller I am running:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)

The network manager icon shows two computer screens. It does not show the 4-bar wireless icon. I right click on the icon and select "Edit Wireless Networks..." I can see two SSIDs. My old one and my current one. I select the current one and select "Show password". It's a long hex key. My key is alphanumeric; it's not hex. I paste my key in and press Set Password. I select the 'X' to close the dialog box. I uncheck "Network Enabled" and recheck it. The two-screen icon remains.

I check "Manual configuration..." and I can see wireless is enabled on my new SSID. However, the wireless still doesn't work. As far as I can tell I am not doing anything wrong. I am attaching my /etc/network/interfaces file since I have seen in other bugs that this can cause a problem. However, I can't see anything wrong with it.

Wired networking works fine.

[Stephen Rasku (ubuntu-srasku)]

Should I upgrade to the beta to test this issue? Is it reasonably safe? Can you upgrade easily between beta releases?

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Stephen,

Please advise as to whether you are still experiencing this issue. Additionally, please note that having wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces with both "auto wlan0" and "iface wlan0" lines will disable NetworkManager from managing that device; if you want NetworkManager to handle that wireless device, please remove the lines "auto wlan0" and anything that goes with the "iface wlan0" line. Thanks.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!