When clicking on a wireless network, nothing happens

Sh4wn · #1 7th April 2011, 01:39 PM

Hi,

I've been playing with F15 lately, and overall it's quite stable.

I've got one problem though: On my school, we have a big Wifi network, with WPA2 enterprise. The accesspoint does show in the network manager drop down list, but when I click on it, nothing happens. No change of the network applet icon, no log message in dmesg, and no alert of SELinux or something. Just nothing.

There are other wireless networks available (different SSID, normal WPA2), and when I click on one of those, I get a nice dialog to enter the password. But I don't have access to these networks, I need to use the one from my school. And unfortunately, that one doesn't work.

Anyone knows what the problem could be and how I could fix this?

Thanks in advance.

bana8app · #2 11th April 2011, 01:37 AM

I have the similarproblem.I have to connect to a hidden network,after I add it in the NetworkManager，the NetworkManager goes down。

Vespa · #3 12th April 2011, 04:48 AM

I had a similar problem after installing F15 today. I was using KDE though so I am not sure if it would apply to you. I had to kill and restart the kwalletd before it would let me make a wireless connection.

jroa1 · #4 12th April 2011, 05:55 AM

Sorry I can not help you, but I have a USB wireless adapter that has the same symptoms. When I plug it in, I can see other wireless connections and I can open them up to ask for a password, but it will not see mine. It seems odd that it will work for my neighbor's wireless routers, but will not detect the one in the other room. But, I have two and I have gotten the other one to work with Fedora.

I may ask one of my neighbors if I can connect to their router, just to see if the adapter would really work. I am just curious.

bennachie · #5 12th April 2011, 01:09 PM

Not sure whether the problem is related, but the network manager applet in F15 seems to get confused when dealing with some wireless networks requiring authentication. The only way around the problem is to open the network settings application, which seems automatically to bring up the dialogue requesting the appropriate password. I haven't yet raised this as a bug, since the applet does sometimes appear to succeed in bringing up the dialogue, and I haven't been able to identify the particular combination of circumstances that gives rise to the temporary impasse.