Connecting to my workplace internal wireless locks up the Dell Mini 9. Most of this I already documented on the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=910487&page=72) and I'm just going to copy and paste them over. I have access to the access points, and the authentication servers and I'm happy to reproduce this as needed to isolate the problem.
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Finally, and most seriously I can't get onto the wireless at work. It's running WPA2 Enterprise, PEAP authentication, EAP-MSCHAP v2 for secondary authentication. It locks the Mini hard with on green dot on the network manager. The bugger is that I can look at the wireless authentication server and I'm logging in successfully according to it but every time I do it hangs my mini. I also tried installing 8.10 to see if the network manager was updated and could get around this with no love. I reverted back to the Dell remix because I like all of my keys to do what their labeled to do. WPA wireless works like a champ both at home and on the work guest wireless. Any ideas?
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Originally Posted by yakker.yak View Post
Hmmm, no experience myself, but it sounds like a wireless driver issue.
Have you tried with another network manager, such as WCID?
No dice on the WICD idea but I do like it better. Due to the lpia kernel issue I reinstalled 8.10 rather than repackage the WICD .deb and risk dependency problems. Still hangs in the same place. Mac and Windows notebooks on the same network are working fine but this just won't connect. It hangs on "Validating authentication" in WICD. Protocol is "PEAP with GTC".
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Originally Posted by yakker.yak View Post
That's too bad. This suggests that it's not a network manager issue but more likely the wireless driver.
Have you checked Launchpad to see if something related has been filed as a bug? Perhaps worthwhile to file as a bug, although if you need your Mini 9 working now I realize this is not going to help your immediate problem
I'm leaning towards the wireless drive problem as well. Three more symptoms that I identified yesterday for what their worth.
1. The last line in the wicd.log file while I had it in debug mode was "wpa_cli result is associated" after which the desktop locked.
2. The keyboard still responds to the brightness controls so something is still working under there even if it may only be the hardware and not the OS.
3. Another staff member here has an Asus Eee loaded with Ubuntu and he can connect to the secured work wireless so that would suggest that the operating system is okay leaving the Dell wireless driver as a likely culprit.
Today's chore is to see if I can get a text only console running and then try to associate to the access point that way. That will isolate out X Windows. I'll also post something on Launchpad and see what sticks. Any advice is still very much appreciated.
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Fourth Post:
Re: Inspiron Mini 9
My wireless skills are not quite what they should be but after looking into it EAP-MSCHAP v2 is different than GTC but they both produce similar results.
I wasn't able to connect to the wireless via the command line but I was able to see all sorts of terrible error messages on tty1. I tested with WICD using PEAP and GTC, I also tested with Network-Manager using PEAP and EAP-MSCHAP v2, both tests produced the same results on tty1.
First there was a huge string of Out of memory, kill process xxxxx messages. I'm assuming that these killed all of my active processes on the box. After that there was a pause between 30 and 90 seconds and then the screen filled again with what I'm assuming is a core dump ending in [224.456542] ---[end trace 7ac017cba2be4fca ]---
Does anyone know of a good way to capture this data? I checked the logs after I rebooted and found nothing. I suspect that the syslog service is in that first batch of processes to get whacked.
I am having the exact same problem with my new Inspiron Mini. Trying to connect to my campus network with WPA2, PEAP, and MSCHAPV2 causes the laptop to freeze to the point of requiring the power button to recover.
I can connect easily to this same network with an HP laptop running Ubuntu 8.10.
This bug is very predictable. I made at least three attempts to connect, and it froze each time.
I'm happy to supply any log output or anything that would be helpful in fixing this.