Wireless WPA stopped working in Hardy 8.04

Try deleting the keyring for the WPA password and then resetting.
Go to System menu, Administration, Keyring Manager.

You should see an entry there for the Wireless network.

Delete that, close Keyring Manager and then try to connect to the Wireless network again.

I have the same problem with Netgear WG111v3 (USB) - I see ndiswrapper with lsmod, and ndiswrapper -l shows wg111v3. Blue light on the device flashes when I alter System>Admin>Network, but then goes out. I, too, am stumped and stymied. :-(

Thanks for your response, Tony, but I don't have System>Administration>Keyring Manager, and Synaptic advises that it's no longer supported. System>Prefrences>Encryption and Keyrings seems to be as close as I can find to that, and it has no entries at all at this point. Is there a command line approach to this issue?

yes i having the same issue, with LINKSYS WUSB54G wireless card. The network can be seen fine i put in all the security code and WPA PERSONAL encryption with TKIP as type of security it will try to connect to it but then it i will not work.
please help

Hi Tony - as per rjwinslow I don't run Keyring Manager. Have tried changing SSID on WLAN router in an effort to create a new password key but same problem.

I am experiencing the same problem: it started 06/17/2008 and as I already had Ubuntu 8.04 and knowing that I have not changed notthing that day I assume that this has something to do with the ubuntu updates.

I installed 8.04 6/14. I'm having the same wireless issue using Netgear WG311 v2. Tried with a Negear 121 USB as well, same problem.

Active networks are visible, but WEP is slow to connect, if at all. Redundant cycle of promp for WEP key.

I installed 8.04 6/14. I'm having the same wireless issue using Netgear WG311 v2. Tried with a Negear 121 USB as well, same problem.

Active networks are visible, but WEP is slow to connect, if at all. Redundant cycle of promp for WEP key.

Hmm.

So what about in a terminal window

sudo gnome-keyring-manager

Does that show your a reference to your WEP key that you can delete and attempt to reset?

I get an error
    "sudo: gnome-keyring-manager : command not found"
It appears as if Keyring-manager is no longer installed by default in Hardy.

After the June 17 updates, I could not use my WEP wifi connections.

I think I found a solution. At least it's working for me...

I restarted with a wired network connection. At that point, I could use the connection manager to switch to either the internal Intel or PCMCIA Netgear wifi devices and both of them worked fine.

I then unhooked the wired connection and wireless continued to work.

I then did a shutdown and power off and restarted without the wired connection and again both devices continued to work.

I restarted again and booted XP on the same machine in case there was any conflict there -- after both a warm and cold restart, Ubuntu came back with the wireless connection and no problems.

So -- in my case -- it seems that after those updates, it needs a wired connection just once and from that point on, it seems to be just fine. The only thing I need to try, is to do a long shutdown -- 24 hours maybe -- and retry. Just hard to find the time to do that one...

Paul

No Joy! It's really not available on this system.

rjw@rjw-laptop:~$ sudo gnome-keyring-manager
[sudo] password for rjw:
sudo: gnome-keyring-manager: command not found
rjw@rjw-laptop:~$ sudo gnome_keyring_manager
sudo: gnome_keyring_manager: command not found
rjw@rjw-laptop:~$

When I mark it for installation in Synaptic, it says the package has unresolvable dependencies. I do have gnome-keyring, however.

Here's my setup:

rjw@rjw-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep Ubuntu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 16:35:01 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-19.33-generic)
rjw@rjw-laptop:~$

Thanks, Paul. I used a wired network connection to open my Wifi router (Netgear WGR614v7 BTW) on which I had been using WPA-PSK on 7.10 (now broken), then WEP which I also can't seem to use. Now I'm open to the world, but at least functioning. I'll keep plugging away - thanks for responding.

Try to install the following through a terminal window

sudo apt-get install gnome-keyring-manager

I have it installed in Hardy so I presume the dependencies are available from the "main" hardy repository.
If not, perhaps universe or multiverse needs to be enabled.

Here's hat I get from command line:

rjw@rjw-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-keyring-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gnome-keyring-manager is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package gnome-keyring-manager has no installation candidate
rjw@rjw-laptop:~$

I already had universe enabled, but having now enabled multiverse, the result is still the same. Still hacking away.

Hi, this thread has been dormant for several weeks, but I found a solution to this problem and wanted to share in case anyone stumbles here later. Like others who posted here, I could only connect to unsecured wireless networks after installing 8.04 (Hardy). If WEP or WPA were turned on, I couldn't connect even though it worked before in 7.10.

The guy above who suggested resetting the keyring was correct. Since the gnome-keyring-manager doesn't install in Hardy, you need to reset it from the command line:

  rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring

After deleting my keyring, I was able to immediately connect to my wireless router with WEP. This problem has been bugging me for a while, so I hope this helps someone. Cheers.

Hi guys

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and am using a Netgear PCMCIA card WG511 v2 to try and connect to my home WPA TKIP wireless network. I've tried the suggestions above but still no luck. I'm new to Ubuntu so I'm not sure what information I need to provide in case any of you can help me. I've spent all day scouring the internet for a solution, but I think my best bet is to hope someone replies.

Thanks in advance
Carlo

Hi guys

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and am using a Netgear PCMCIA card WG511 v2 to try and connect to my home WPA TKIP wireless network. I've tried the suggestions above but still no luck. I'm new to Ubuntu so I'm not sure what information I need to provide in case any of you can help me.
- I can see local wireless networks.
- When I try and connect to my home network it stalls at 'waiting for a network key' before failing (no descriptive error)
- I checked my router's 'attached devices' and saw my computer listed with an assigned ip. Still didn't work though.
- I assigned the MAC address an IP on my router hoping to facilitate the connection- no go.
- Other computers on the network are fine.

I've spent all day scouring the internet for a solution, but I think my best bet is to hope someone replies.

Thanks in advance
Carlo

I've long since given up on trying to make this work and am now just hoping to get a recommendation for a PCMCIA card that will work easily. I hear RealTek is best bet for Linux in general, and am now hoping for a recommendation of a specific model that's working with Hardy for someone.