stephen_wq
2007-11-01, 10:13 PM CDT
Hey there,
I'm having several problems with wireless.
My network is secured by WPA, and i'm using KNetworkManager to connect, which works great. Card is a Gigabyte GN-WPKG with a Ralink 2500 chipset, running default drivers that came with Fedora 7 (rt2500pci methinks)
However theres the issue of having to use KWallet and entering the master password every time, which i don't want to do as this computer is going to become somewhat of a media center output i suppose you could say, though i won't go into detail. Pretty much i want to save the password and not type anything.
Though thats not the big problem. When i boot up it says 'starting wlan0 OK' then 'getting IP information' which takes about a minute to do, which fails, since it's WPA secured and cant connect. Then it trys to mount the CIFS shares that i want to mount, which also can't, as there is no network available. This is obviously annoying, as it adds to the boot time which is slow enough, and doesn't achieve anything.
So, how do i get it to start wireless on boot up, with connecting to my network which is WPA secured. I've had no success with using WPA_supplicant previously, so if thats needed i'm going to need step by step.
Any suggestions at all are welcomed.
(this is copied from a thread in general which go no replies, its in the right section now and only on wireless)
I'm having several problems with wireless.
My network is secured by WPA, and i'm using KNetworkManager to connect, which works great. Card is a Gigabyte GN-WPKG with a Ralink 2500 chipset, running default drivers that came with Fedora 7 (rt2500pci methinks)
However theres the issue of having to use KWallet and entering the master password every time, which i don't want to do as this computer is going to become somewhat of a media center output i suppose you could say, though i won't go into detail. Pretty much i want to save the password and not type anything.
Though thats not the big problem. When i boot up it says 'starting wlan0 OK' then 'getting IP information' which takes about a minute to do, which fails, since it's WPA secured and cant connect. Then it trys to mount the CIFS shares that i want to mount, which also can't, as there is no network available. This is obviously annoying, as it adds to the boot time which is slow enough, and doesn't achieve anything.
So, how do i get it to start wireless on boot up, with connecting to my network which is WPA secured. I've had no success with using WPA_supplicant previously, so if thats needed i'm going to need step by step.
Any suggestions at all are welcomed.
(this is copied from a thread in general which go no replies, its in the right section now and only on wireless)