I got a new router/access point and have been going nuts trying to get my laptop to connect<br>via wireless. I previously had static IP addresses but my wife wanted me to change to dhcp<br>to make things easier for her windows machines. Well, her machines are just fine. The dos I've<br>
read said that fr KDE I should use knetworkmanager, which I'm trying to do. I finally left<br>my eth0 config in /etc/network/interfaces and intend for knetworkmanager to just handle<br>wireless. I think I'm getting close as I now get a popup window for the pass phrase but<br>
still no connection.<br>Below is the syslog during one try to connect. Can someone tell me what this means?<br><br>Richard Harke<br><br>Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'home'<br>
Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4 (reason 0)<br>Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...<br>
Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...<br>Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...<br>
Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.<br>Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...<br>
Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0)<br>Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'home' has security, but secrets are required.<br>
Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6 (reason 0)<br>Oct 17 18:45:59 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.<br>
Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 6 -> 9 (reason 7)<br>Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (oaktree)<br>
Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> Marking connection 'home' invalid.<br>Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed.<br>Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)<br>
Oct 17 18:46:06 grassmann NetworkManager[1982]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 0).<br><br>