The next chapter in wireless problems: difference between Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10?

[Don Levey]

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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
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