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2009/2/14 daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com> |
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> I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC |
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> address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my |
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> hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I also |
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> installed Wicd to see if I could avoid the problem that way. The problem |
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> seems to lie in the WEP password authentication to the local network. |
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> NetworkManager just kept asking for the password over and over again, never |
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> connecting. Wicd will claim to connect and issue an IP address, but the |
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> wireless does not function. |
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I'm a dolt; the problem was that the gnome default keyring got mucked up by |
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the changed MAC (which you could probably anticipate), and then that's why |
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NetworkManager stopped working. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I |
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took a backup copy of ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default* and now it's fine again. |
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Probably you could delete these files and then the nm-applet will make them |
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again, but I'm lazy. |
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I still didn't get wicd working, but I never had that working before, so |
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that's probably a configuration issue, and in any case clearly unrelated to |
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toying around with my MAC address (since I installed wicd later anyway); I |
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originally though since NM was also assigning the default IP addresses that |
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it might be related, but that's because I'm inexperienced. |
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I'm a little embarassed that the solution was so easy and obvious and I |
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bothered everyone. But I did learn some things in the process, so I |
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appreciate the feedback a lot. So, as I eventually move to use wicd, the |
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comments here will be helpful for me. |
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Regards, |
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daid |