Please forgive me. I know this gets asked a lot and, honestly, I’ve searched for a cumulative 3-4 hours over the last week before resorting to just asking. If this has been solved somewhere that I’ve yet to find please just link me there. If not, here’s my problem:
I’ve been programing on Windows for a while now. It’s alright, better than a Mac I’m told. But every programmer I know tells me that Linux is far superior. So I decided to give it a try.
I’ve since downloaded Ubuntu, Linux Mint and now OpenSuse. With each one I suffer the same problem… I can not connect to my WPA2 wifi network. It’s there, I can see my network, it recognizes that it exists but when I input the password (and yes I’m 100% sure I’m inputting the correct pw) it just sort of hangs for a while before giving me a “Did (or could) not connect” message.
It’s beyond all frustrations at this point.
Maybe it’s my USB dongle that’s not set up appropriately for Linux? I use a Linksys WUSB54GC.
I’ve tried Googling it but came back with mixed results so I’m really not sure.
Any help you can give would be fantastic. Keep in mind if you’re looking for diagnostic information, you’ll probably need to tell me exactly how to get said information. Like I said I’m accustomed to Windows and don’t know a terribly large amount about Linux or it’s systems administration.
Thanks!
On 06/18/2011 11:06 AM, BacteriaEP wrote:
>
> Please forgive me. I know this gets asked a lot and, honestly, I’ve
> searched for a cumulative 3-4 hours over the last week before resorting
> to just asking. If this has been solved somewhere that I’ve yet to find
> please just link me there. If not, here’s my problem:
>
> I’ve been programing on Windows for a while now. It’s alright, better
> than a Mac I’m told. But every programmer I know tells me that Linux is
> far superior. So I decided to give it a try.
>
> I’ve since downloaded Ubuntu, Linux Mint and now OpenSuse. With each
> one I suffer the same problem… I can not connect to my WPA2 wifi
> network. It’s there, I can see my network, it recognizes that it exists
> but when I input the password (and yes I’m 100% sure I’m inputting the
> correct pw) it just sort of hangs for a while before giving me a “Did
> (or could) not connect” message.
>
> It’s beyond all frustrations at this point.
>
> Maybe it’s my USB dongle that’s not set up appropriately for Linux? I
> use a Linksys WUSB54GC.
>
> I’ve tried Googling it but came back with mixed results so I’m really
> not sure.
>
> Any help you can give would be fantastic. Keep in mind if you’re
> looking for diagnostic information, you’ll probably need to tell me
> exactly how to get said information. Like I said I’m accustomed to
> Windows and don’t know a terribly large amount about Linux or it’s
> systems administration.
We need to know the USB ID for that device. Please post the output of ‘lsusb’.
If the command is not found, you will need to install it with the command
sudo zypper ins usbutils
Most Linux wireless device drivers can handle WEP (key only - no passphrase),
WPA or WPA2, but there are some exceptions.
Welcome to Linux. You will soon get used to not needing to boot several times a
day (one of my servers has been up for 62 days, which is not unusual), and not
worrying about viruses.
There seems to be several models that claim to work, look here…
Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl
I would do just as lwfinger suggests. I also have a bash script that can provide some addition information on your setup you can find here:
See Message #11 here for netinfo:
netinfo - Read Network & PC Information into a Local Text File - Page 2
Thank You,