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wicd Connection Failed: Bad Password

hi,

i've got a Netgear PCI MA311 wi-fi card that i installed on my Debian7 box. i've installed the 'hostap' driver associated with this wi-fi card. network manager 'wicd' is installed. 'ifconfig' correctly identifies the card. and i can see my wi-fi network from wicd network manager. the network is configured with wep encryption and the key is corrected entered in wicd.

However, when i try to connect to my wifi network, it returns with 'authentication failed, bad password' error.

i had this computer connected to home wi-fi network before, then i took out the wifi card for another pc, after i reinstalled the wifi card back into this pc, suddenly i began to receive 'bad password' error.

any help is appreciated.

thanks,

does the card still work as expected in the other computer?

why are you using WEP encryption? i thought WPA was the way to go these days...

can you (temporarily) disable your networks encryption and connect to it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 5171524)

yes, the card works well with my other pc.

i've tried to disable wi-fi encryption, still couldn't connect to the newtwork.

i use WEP because this card only supports WEP in windows, i used to have dual-boot on the pc, not sure whether it supports wpa in debian linux.

Does your network support "b" and "g" wireless connections? that card is "b" only (explains why it only supports wep).

***edit***never mind, I see it works with the other pc (I assume on the same network).

***edit2***have you tried both wep options in the wicd interface?

Quote:

Originally Posted by xiongnu (Post 5172184)

i've tried to disable wi-fi encryption, still couldn't connect to the newtwork.

methinks, there's some inconsistency between this and the "Bad Password" from your thread title.

how about you start posting some computer output relating to your network setup? e.g. like this:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=27628
since we cannot physically access your machine, our help only goes so far as you provide us with info.

I have read about people having the exact same problem with wicd but not with, eg. nm-applet. Try a different network manager and see if the problem persists.

I have been having the same problem on a laptop. For me neither network manager works: wicd complains about a bad password, nm-applet just spits up the password dialog again.

The workaround I've been using is to remove the module for the card and load it back. Then in 90% of the cases it connects to the network straight away:

For example (on my system it's the 'wl' module):

Code:

# rmmod wl

# modprobe wl

Then I provide the password again and usually it works. It's a not-so-quick and dirty workaround but it works. I think it's to do with the drivers and their support for a wifi chip (mine is very new).

HTH.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 5172298)

outputs of:

Code:

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ uname -rv

3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ dmesg|grep -Ei 'wlan|firmw|dhc'

[    7.849034] wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WEP

[    7.849039] wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS

[    7.851942] wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0

[    8.419185] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent aborted loading radeon/R300_cp.bin (not found?)

[    8.419370] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

[    8.435560] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent aborted loading radeon/R300_cp.bin (not found?)

[    8.436080] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

[  59.712016] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep -Ei 'net|wpa|dhc'

[sudo] password for erdos: 

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep -Ei 'net|wpa|dhc'

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ sudo rfkill list

sudo: rfkill: command not found

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ su

Password: 

root@debian:/etc/network# rfkill list

Can't open RFKILL control device: No such file or directory

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex (Post 5172326)

Code:

# rmmod wl

# modprobe wl

i think 'hostap' is the wi-fi module for my card, when i run 'lsmod'to display loaded module, it shows 'hostap' and 'lib80211', i'm not sure which one is the module for the card.

Code:

erdos@debian:/etc/network$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

mperf                  12421  0 

speedstep_lib          12574  0 

cpufreq_stats          12762  0 

cpufreq_conservative    12987  0 

cpufreq_powersave      12422  0 

cpufreq_userspace      12520  0 

ppdev                  12651  0 

lp                    12797  0 

nfsd                  173890  2 

nfs                  265921  0 

nfs_acl                12463  2 nfs,nfsd

auth_rpcgss            32143  2 nfs,nfsd

fscache                31978  1 nfs

lockd                  57277  2 nfs,nfsd

sunrpc                143904  6 lockd,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl,nfs,nfsd

ext3                  134152  1 

jbd                    47281  1 ext3

loop                  17810  0 

fuse                  52184  1 

radeon                636657  2 

ttm                    47786  1 radeon

drm_kms_helper        22738  1 radeon

drm                  146387  4 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon

iTCO_wdt              16945  0 

iTCO_vendor_support    12632  1 iTCO_wdt

power_supply          13283  1 radeon

i2c_algo_bit          12713  1 radeon

snd_intel8x0          22372  4 

pcspkr                12515  0 

serio_raw              12803  0 

hostap_pci            43405  2 

rng_core              12580  0 

evdev                  17225  7 

hostap                84352  1 hostap_pci

lib80211              12829  2 hostap,hostap_pci

shpchp                26717  0 

processor              27565  0 

snd_ac97_codec        84236  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_pcm_oss            36181  0 

snd_mixer_oss          17668  2 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                53461  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0

snd_page_alloc        12867  2 snd_pcm,snd_intel8x0

snd_seq_midi          12744  0 

snd_seq_midi_event    13124  1 snd_seq_midi

snd_rawmidi            22472  1 snd_seq_midi

snd_seq                39512  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi

snd_seq_device        13016  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi

snd_timer              22356  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd                    42722  15 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0

soundcore              12921  2 snd

ac97_bus              12462  1 snd_ac97_codec

parport_pc            22036  1 

button                12817  0 

i2c_i801              12670  0 

i2c_core              19116  5 i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon

parport                31254  3 parport_pc,lp,ppdev

ext4                  306996  1 

crc16                  12327  1 ext4

jbd2                  52330  1 ext4

mbcache                12938  2 ext4,ext3

usbhid                31554  0 

hid                    60152  1 usbhid

sg                    21476  0 

sd_mod                35425  4 

crc_t10dif            12332  1 sd_mod

ata_generic            12439  0 

pata_it821x            13136  0 

floppy                48087  0 

ata_piix              25271  3 

libata                125014  3 ata_piix,pata_it821x,ata_generic

thermal                13103  0 

fan                    12594  0 

8139too                22028  0 

uhci_hcd              22337  0 

thermal_sys            17752  3 fan,thermal,processor

mii                    12595  1 8139too

ehci_hcd              35509  0 

firewire_ohci          26784  0 

scsi_mod              135037  3 libata,sd_mod,sg

firewire_core          38753  1 firewire_ohci

crc_itu_t              12331  1 firewire_core

usbcore              104555  4 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usbhid

usb_common            12338  1 usbcore

Yes, it looks like the hostap module is the right one.

What is your wifi chipset?

Code:

/sbin/lspci | grep network

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex (Post 5172950)

Yes, it looks like the hostap module is the right one.

What is your wifi chipset?

Code:

/sbin/lspci | grep network

Code:

root@debian:/etc/network# /sbin/lspci | grep network

bash: /sbin/lspci: No such file or directory

root@debian:/etc/network# lspci | grep network

root@debian:/etc/network#

Hmmm, what about:

Code:

lspci -nn | grep Network

See:
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI

or:

Code:

lspci -nn | grep -i net

:-)

we really have to find out about your hardware and whether linux is loading the right modules+firmware.

there's a few suspicions i have already but i'll keep them to myself until we know more.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex (Post 5184429)

Hmmm, what about:

Code:

lspci -nn | grep Network

See:
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI

output of 'grep' command:

Code:

root@debian:/home/erdos/Downloads# lspci -nn | grep Network

02:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation ISL3874 [Prism 2.5]/ISL3872 [Prism 3] [1260:3873] (rev 01)

root@debian:/home/erdos/Downloads# lspci -nn | grep -i net

02:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX [1113:1211] (rev 10)

02:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation ISL3874 [Prism 2.5]/ISL3872 [Prism 3] [1260:3873] (rev 01)

root@debian:/home/erdos/Downloads#

in the end, i configured a Linksys WRT54GL as a wi-fi repeater and connected to computer's ethernet port for net access.

this eliminated the internal wi-fi card since i can't resolve the 'bad password' error after all.