Wireless connection doesn't get established even on right key

Bug #659039 reported by Sundaram Ramaswamy
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network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 10.10's live usb session detected my usb wireless adapter (Netgear WG111v2) correctly and my network's SSID was among the list of wirless networks it could find. I chose mine, gave the WPA2 key, it got connected. Hoping this would continue, I installed the OS onto my harddisk.

After a couple of reboots, my wireless connection doesn't get established. Ubuntu continues to detect the wireless adapter rightly, but asks for the WPA2 key. I give it right and still after trying to connect for 3 minutes, asks for the key again. This goes on forever, but never connects.

The *same* issue is there since 8.10, I was not able to connect after the live session, once the OS is installed onto the hdd. In the live session, all versions of Ubuntu detects and connect with a right key. While in a installed session, detects right, but never connects even with the right key, it says it's incorrect.

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Sundaram Ramaswamy (legends2k) wrote :

OS: Ubuntu
Version: 10.10 (amd64) installed via Live USB (LiveUSB created using Universal USB Installer)
WPA2 is the key

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Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't start working on it yet, because your bug report didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager. If you have trouble, please do not hesitate to ask for more assistance. Thanks in advance.

affects: ubuntu → network-manager (Ubuntu)
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Sundaram Ramaswamy (legends2k) wrote :

After searching a lot, it seems the only workaround is to use ndiswrapper. No point in raising the bug since it's been the same since 8.10 till now, due to the buggy rtl8187b mod.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Opinion
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