[nzlug] Acer Aspire, Hardy, and wireless

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi, I just upgraded my parents' laptop from the gutsy install that came
> with it to hardy. Everything seems alright, except the wireless won't
> connect to the WPA encrypted access point.
>
> It's using ndiswrapper, and the ath_pci module is blacklisted.
>
> In daemon.log, it gets up to "Activation (wlan1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
> Configure) complete."
> and then about a minute later, it gives up saying that association took
> too long.
>
> Before the upgrade, I had it working in this configuration, and it will
> currently work if I turn the encryption off. But, I'd really like to get
> it working with WPA for obvious reasons.
>
> Anyone have any insight that may be useful?
>
> Cheers, Robin.
>

ath driver works here with WPA, is there a reason you are preferring
not to use the open source driver?

I sometimes find that deleting all the configurations and starting again.