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hi,
cant connect my wifi on mageia 2 with encryption, without encryption it connects fine. I have a laptop hp 431 with atheros wifi chip. It was working fine on mandriva 2010.2. Kindly someone help me

regards

normunds wrote:hi,
cant connect my wifi on mageia 2 with encryption, without encryption it connects fine. I have a laptop hp 431 with atheros wifi chip. It was working fine on mandriva 2010.2. Kindly someone help me

regards

NetworkManager is known to conflict with drakx-net, which often leads to no connection at all.

Please try either uninstalling NetworkManager, or disabling drakx-net-applet by adding a ~/.net_applet file with this content to prevent its launch:
AUTOSTART=FALSE

marja wrote:disabling drakx-net-applet by adding a ~/.net_applet file with this content to prevent its launch:
AUTOSTART=FALSE

Can also be achieved via right-click on the systray icon of the applet -> Settings -> and uncheck "Always run at system start"
Just two mouseclicks away

@normunds:
Apart from that suggestion, seems like either wpa_supplicant is missing, or a firmware for the wireless adapter.
Please show the output of the following commands as root:

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lspcidrake -v | grep -i net
rpm -qa | grep firmware
dmesg | grep -iE 'firmware|fw|wifi|wlan|wireless'

HI
I am getting the same problem - wifi used to ok at my work which uses wpa2 enterprise , but this week its stopped working.
I have tried to add and remove networkmanager but no joy - interestingly when I go to configure the connection it auto selects wpa2 enterprice as the encryption , but when checking the details after a failed connection message the encryption is set to none.
here are the outputs as requested above

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[zen@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake -v | grep -i net
ath9k           : Atheros Communications Inc.|AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:168c device:0030 subv:11ad subd:6503) (rev: 01)
r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8136 subv:1179 subd:fd3c) (rev: 05)
[zen@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firmware
carl9170-firmware-1.9.4-1.mga2
rtlwifi-firmware-20120421-3.mga2.nonfree
bluez-firmware-1.2-6.mga1
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20120421-3.mga2.nonfree
kernel-firmware-20120219-1.mga2
[zen@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep -iE 'firmware|fw|wifi|wlan|wireless'
[    0.356851] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[    1.811544] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04733/0xa40000/0xa0000
[   11.586782] [Firmware Bug]: battery: (dis)charge rate invalid.
[   12.232239] udevd[333]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
[zen@localhost ~]$



many thanks


just as an update wifi has stopped althoughter - unable to connected to any wifi service.