Sorry taking so long to get back. I have to reboot into another distro in order to read the forum or answer.
doktor5000 wrote:larrydc wrote:I have never achieved a sucessful connection except when the SSID was seen as:
Doña Ana's
You mean under Mageia or under Debian? And when was it seen as "Doña Ana's" ? Also. how did you create the connection in the first place?
No I never got Mageia 4.1 to connect to "Doña Ana's". In the 2 Debian distros I mentioned the connection is just click on the "not-connected or no network" icon in the system tray. Choose wireless and there would be Doña Ana's in the list.
The issue therefore would seem to be that prior to any connection, Mageia shows among the available wireless routers:
Do\xc3\xb1a Ana's
And that never connects.
After following your instructions & then trying NetWorkManager all to no avail yesterday, being a Linux distro dilletante (& retired & on vacation at the home of my mother-in-law, whose name is "Doña Ana" ... thence the choice of the router name), I installed an Ubuntu variant Centrych that boasted more fine grained setup. This time I found & ran nm-connection-editor as root. I just created a new Wireless connection from scratch beyong the correct MAC address for the wireless adapter. This let me add the ESSID=E8:AB:FA:16:1E:F9 in addition to the SSID=Doña Ana's. I added the WPA/WPA2 password and just to be contrary, I even changed the name of the connection from Wireless1 to Doña Ana's. That was it. Close the dialog & connected.
I am going to since I can't get much use out of Mageia 4.1 w/o a connection to the Internet. While I certainly go to all the trouble of renaming the wireless router & changing the configurations of the 3 other devices connected to it, as a proponent of Linux I refuse to: Two of the other devices are Android smartphones & the other is my wife's laptop running Windows 7.1. I cannot support any distro that lacks the capabilities of the "Dark side".
I especially liked the way the installation sans internet flawslessly installed nvidia 340. This Ubuntu 12.04 LTS distro only installed nvidia 173. I've been a Mageia fan from when it came with my favorite text-editor, cooledit. Sadly, it's no longer available even via urpmi.
I think you could try to switch to networkmanager,
It made no difference.
...edit the config file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlXXXXXX to put the real SSID in there,
and rename the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Do\xc3\xb1a Ana's to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Doña Ana's via e.g.
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mv "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Do\xc3\xb1a Ana's" "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Doña Ana's"
Anytime a connection was attempted my old friend, "/Do\xc3\xb1a Ana's" reappeared and the connection failed.
...IMHO that's a pretty bad choice for an SSID but that probably won't help you much further
Besides being a tribute to my host, if it's hard to connect to, it serves as a distinguishing feature of the distros that can connect to it.
As I said, I will report it as a bug & when it gets fixed, I'll be back to Mageia as an rpm distro. For now it's off to either Fedora 20 or PCLinuxOS 2010.
Thanks for your prompt & pertinent help. You are definitely "a distinguishing feature" of the Mageia distro.