Hi
I had the same problem the other day. After choosing it manually from lists of available authentication methods it worked - as the other guy says, make sure the router is configured with WPA. I have noticed that I had to try several times before it connected. So if it does not connect the first time, try again. It will authenticate eventually and once it gets that done it will be fine.
Yip, Dlink router is a real bastard. I have set up for my parents home and it works fine.
Regards Leon
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:07 +0200, Leon Vergottini wrote:
I had the same problem the other day. After choosing it manually from lists of available authentication methods it worked - as the other guy says, make sure the router is configured with WPA. I have noticed that I had to try several times before it connected. So if it does not connect the first time, try again. It will authenticate eventually and once it gets that done it will be fine.
I have noticed that NetworkManager takes its own sweet time to find this router, yet ones (much further away) from the neighbours pop up into the list quite quickly.
Yip, Dlink router is a real bastard. I have set up for my parents home and it works fine.
What swayed me over this one compared to the Netgear was its three-year warranty versus the Netgear's one year. I've got more than a bit sick of unreliable gear.
Now, having played with it and someone else's Netgear, one thing that I *REALLY* do not like about this Dlink DIR-300 is you cannot disable re-configuration via the wireless link. On other routers, I've been able to set it so that you had to plug a cable in to be able to configure it.
Picture this scenario: You plug in your new wireless router, it has no security settings. You configure it using the HTTP webserver, and your passwords (any you set into it) are part of the HTML source code, viewable by anyone else at the same time. Your browser may display them as ***** in the webform, but it's only the browser display that's obscuring them.
Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:07 +0200, Leon Vergottini wrote:
I had the same problem the other day. After choosing it manually from lists of available authentication methods it worked - as the other guy says, make sure the router is configured with WPA. I have noticed that I had to try several times before it connected. So if it does not connect the first time, try again. It will authenticate eventually and once it gets that done it will be fine.
I have noticed that NetworkManager takes its own sweet time to find this router, yet ones (much further away) from the neighbours pop up into the list quite quickly.
Yip, Dlink router is a real bastard. I have set up for my parents home and it works fine.
What swayed me over this one compared to the Netgear was its three-year warranty versus the Netgear's one year. I've got more than a bit sick of unreliable gear.
Now, having played with it and someone else's Netgear, one thing that I *REALLY* do not like about this Dlink DIR-300 is you cannot disable re-configuration via the wireless link. On other routers, I've been able to set it so that you had to plug a cable in to be able to configure it.
Picture this scenario: You plug in your new wireless router, it has no security settings. You configure it using the HTTP webserver, and your passwords (any you set into it) are part of the HTML source code, viewable by anyone else at the same time. Your browser may display them as ***** in the webform, but it's only the browser display that's obscuring them.
You can make the router only accessible via https, at least I can on my Linksys though I am not sure if that would fix the issue in question. There is some OPen WRT firmware for the linksys that I have been dying to try though........
Tim:
Picture this scenario: You plug in your new wireless router, it has no security settings. You configure it using the HTTP webserver, and your passwords (any you set into it) are part of the HTML source code, viewable by anyone else at the same time. Your browser may display them as ***** in the webform, but it's only the browser display that's obscuring them.
max:
You can make the router only accessible via https, at least I can on my Linksys though I am not sure if that would fix the issue in question.
Mine doesn't appear to listen on anything other than port 80. I settled for turning off wireless, then configuring things, then turning it back on using WPA2 only.
There is some OPen WRT firmware for the linksys that I have been dying to try though........
I had a look on the site for that, mine's only "partially supported".
Tim wrote:
I have noticed that NetworkManager takes its own sweet time to find this router, yet ones (much further away) from the neighbours pop up into the list quite quickly.
I had this (minor) problem when I re-booted this morning: NM tried to connect to another, weaker, access point instead of the one downstairs.
But what exactly is the strategy of NM? I thought it was meant to remember where it had successfully connected, and try that site first. As far as I can tell, my NM has no recollection at all of where it has connected to; it appears to list all the access points it sees, and then chooses one at random.
Assuming NM is meant to remember what happened in the past, where does it store the information?
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:27 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
As far as I can tell, my NM has no recollection at all of where it has connected to; it appears to list all the access points it sees, and then chooses one at random.
It seems to get that side of things right, here (reselecting my access point, same as last session). Just curious, but is your wrong access point selection an open one? (One with no security.)
I can well imagine it going for the strongest signal, taking an open one over one that you've set up password access to, as an automatic thing. But I can't see any justification for it trying to pick an open one that's weaker than other access points.
I went through the connection editing options, where you can customise some of the connections. A glaring omission would seem to be a way to set it to always ignore particular ones.