Ubuntu Ibex wireless troubles


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Okay so I have my computer running to my router. My laptop and my secondary computer that my mom uses are wirelessly connected. For some reason after upgrading my mom's today to Ibex, I can't get it to connect. It comes up saying my network name, asks for the password. I put it in and it says attempting to join. After a minute or so, the box comes back up asking for the password again. If I click to show the password, I see some really long hex looking thing. When I type the password it's supposed to be, and try again the same thing happens. I can't figure out why it's not working. My laptop had no troubles. Actually when I went in to see the settings on it to try them on the second computer, it too had a hex password that was different. I can't understand what's going wrong.

Edit: I realized I had the SSID off by one letter, when I fixed it, the password seems to be the same as on my laptop, however I still can't connect. And also, no connections show when I click on the nm applet, I have to click connect to hidden network.

I also ran nmapplet in the terminal and all it says is:

** Message: <info> New secrets for wireless security requested; ask the user.
That's when the box comes up again asking for the password. And when I re enter it, or leave it as the hex password, it happens again Edited by Kreuger
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The "hex password" is your password, after being encrypted. Some type of error/misconfiguration is happening. Was the wireless connection working OK before upgrading? Maybe removing the network password would be a possible temporary fix.

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Yeah it was working fine previously. I tried deleting the password off the network manager. Did you mean removing it from the whole connection just to see if it works?

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Close the network manager, remove it's configuration files and open it again. If that doesn't work report it as a bug.

Also boot with the Ubuntu CD into a Live session and see if the network is working there. If it is then it should be a configuration/upgrading related problem.

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The page provided above is the official page of the project, can be used for bug reports for instance.

The tool your are using to configure the network is a gnome panel applet, it simplifies the configuration of the network.

The command "sudo network-admin" will launch a tool where the network interfaces can be configured. Run it to configure your network, manually. Does it fail to work that way too?

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Well I thought I had to delete the files before configuring the network again. When I run that I get command not found and its not in Synaptic unless it has another name?

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True... That tool was in the Ubuntu CD I've tried (7.10), now it seems to be gone... There should be an equivalent tool. Look in the gnome menu> system or something like that. Should have a tool to configure the network.

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The only one I see is for configuring the Windows driver. There's a button in that tool that says configure network but when I click it, it says it could not find a network configuration tool

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