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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. In fact, if I give Wicd a faulty WEP password, |
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it still claims to connect and to issue me an IP address, and it's always |
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the same IP address, even after a reboot. Trying NetworkManager again, now |
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it either fails to connect, just kees trying for a very long time with no |
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results, or nm-applet crashes and I have to restart the NM daemon. |
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I know there are no strange network problems (or blocks on my MAC address, |
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for example) because I can connect with other operating systems just fine, |
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which, incidentally, is not using the same wireless IP address. |
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I'd provide more technical information, but I'm not sure what things are |
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useful. I checked lshal and confirmed my hardware MAC is correct. |
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Any ideas of how to reset the wireless settings or resume the connection |
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would be very helpful. |
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~daid |