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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Gillen wrote: > Don Levey wrote: >> It's a built-in 802.11a/b/g card in my Acer laptop. It identifies in >> Network Settings as Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. > ... >> When I logged in again as myself (into KDE) I tried to connect via the >> Network Manager applet. However, even though it saw the >> previously-configured connection (and I was asked for the password) it >> refused to connect. Instead I was continually prompted for the WPA >> password. > > > I have a dell that uses the iwl4965 driver, and I have issues similar to what > you describe when I've booted with wireless off via the hardware kill-switch, > then turn it on. Wireless will work if it doesn't use WPA, but I have a heck > of time trying to authenticate to WPA networks. It works just fine if wireless > is enabled at boot time. > > So I wouldn't rule out it being a driver issue. > The hardware kill switch... I remember that I used to have problems if it weren't enabled at the right time during startup. There are certain times where hitting that switch will work - just after the POST, after udev is enabled. I've gotten used to hitting that as a matter of course. > Do it the other way around (try your normal user, then the new test user) and > see if the test user fails to connect. > As for the sequence of users, if the first user I try upon startup is the test user, it works. If the first user I try is the normal user, I am unsuccessful and there's no "carry-through". > Finally, > Don Levey wrote: >> I got what ended up >> being a permissions error on .ICEauthority (being owned by root - but >> I'm not using ICWwm so what gives?) > > .ICEauthority has nothing to do with ICWwm, it's an X thing, related to > .Xauthority. > > Matt Ah, that would explain it, then. So why should root be writing that file? -Don -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJEKjuiVR8AmYXiFARAktVAJ9WrgfQYPzmyU6W9xZpxewj8b/zzQCfUgAn 62+Yu/k1ByMMs3aCcZ0n71o= =nRZH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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