deadc0de
5th November 2008, 06:15 AM
Hey all. I just recently installed Fedora 9 on the recommendation of a friend of mine. I'm incredibly happy with the built in support this OS flavour has. Debian was hell. But anywho, to my question:
I've been trying to connect to my home wireless network, and a friends wireless network for 3 days now. From what I've gathered it's not the drivers, rather the OS itself. I use an ALFA external USB wireless device on my laptop as it is compatible with the other distro I use often - Backtrack 3. Unfortunately the forums and google itself haven't yielded much luck for me.
My problem is when I go to connect it continuously states secrets are required to log in to my network. I'm using WEP-128 for compatibility until some wireless-based hardware I have around the house starts supporting WPA. So every time I put in the key (both hex, or the passcode used to generate the hex) I get the same "Secrets required" issue. Even when the passcode is copied and pasted into the textbox via a text file and a USB stick.
Furthermore on a friends network we tried the same thing to better quantify the issue. It did the same thing. Regardless of whether or not the passcode was correct it would spit out the same secrets are required message.
So I ran through and did what most people have recommended. Disable certain services and try again - no luck. So I deleted my .gnome2 keyring file. Still no luck. I'm running out of ideas to try and fix this. For referential purposes my wireless ALFA usb stick worked with every distro but this one so far, and it DOES detect the network and it's strength. Which is why this has me puzzled.
Anyone have any ideas other than removing my wireless' protection completely?
I've been trying to connect to my home wireless network, and a friends wireless network for 3 days now. From what I've gathered it's not the drivers, rather the OS itself. I use an ALFA external USB wireless device on my laptop as it is compatible with the other distro I use often - Backtrack 3. Unfortunately the forums and google itself haven't yielded much luck for me.
My problem is when I go to connect it continuously states secrets are required to log in to my network. I'm using WEP-128 for compatibility until some wireless-based hardware I have around the house starts supporting WPA. So every time I put in the key (both hex, or the passcode used to generate the hex) I get the same "Secrets required" issue. Even when the passcode is copied and pasted into the textbox via a text file and a USB stick.
Furthermore on a friends network we tried the same thing to better quantify the issue. It did the same thing. Regardless of whether or not the passcode was correct it would spit out the same secrets are required message.
So I ran through and did what most people have recommended. Disable certain services and try again - no luck. So I deleted my .gnome2 keyring file. Still no luck. I'm running out of ideas to try and fix this. For referential purposes my wireless ALFA usb stick worked with every distro but this one so far, and it DOES detect the network and it's strength. Which is why this has me puzzled.
Anyone have any ideas other than removing my wireless' protection completely?
