MrD

tried to do 2 screen capture videos but both kept crashing or the video kept flickering.

just to show exactly what i was doing.

sorry.. didnt work

ok this is getting way beyond annoying now. I've done what has been suggested on this thread and im getting nowhere.

either im doing something wrong or this just isnt working.

can someone please tell me whats going on?

Thanks

Still having probs with this guys.. dont suppose anyone could use remote desktop to have a look please?

thanks

Not sure what the nm-applet is or how to run it.. :(

Typed

service networkmanager status

and got

NetworkManager dead but subsys locked

*shrugs*

ok typed

chkconfig --list | grep -i networkmanager

and got

[root@localhost jo]# chkconfig --list | grep -i networkmanager

networkmanager 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

networkmanagerdispatcher 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

ran chkconfig networkmanager on just got bash prompt

ran urpmi networkmanager just for good measure incase something hadn't installed properly and got

[root@localhost jo]# urpmi networkmanager

Package networkmanager-0.7.0-0.4mdv2008.1.i586 is already installed

Packages networkmanager-0.7.0-0.4mdv2008.1.i586, networkmanager-0.7.0-0.4mdv2008.1.i586 can not be installed

ran chkconfig networkmanagerdispatcher off then

ran chkconfig networkmanager on

rebooted then got some message about some files missing for NetworkManager

EDIT:

Error message was

The NetworkManager Applet could not find some required resources. It cannot continue.

hello thanks for your reply

At the moment I'm using a hardwire to connect.

I've checked the installed packages and NetworkManager is installed but how do I access it please?

I believe i've installed madwifi but again, not sure if this app is actually managing my connection.

Thanks again for your help

Hey Everyone.

n00b to Linux and Mandriva and feel like banging head on walls..

I've searched thru various forums and not found exactly what i need to fix this.

It may be that I'm missing the obvious but as a linux n00b i'm not 100% sure what i'm looking for.

Anyway. here's the blerb.

Got Netgear wireless router with WPA-PSK encryption.

Built-in wireless card in laptop Atheros Communication AR5212/AR5213

CAN connect if no security and SSID broadcast ON

CAN'T connect if encryption ON

I've done IFCONFIG and got an EIGHT segment MAC address (?)

(MAC address altered to prevent spoofing represented by XX)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-XX-XX-87-XX-88-XX-08-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:89931 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:4436

TX packets:254793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:199

RX bytes:9782107 (9.3 MiB) TX bytes:13121834 (12.5 MiB)

Interrupt:19

IWCONFIG shows

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"CasaSantana" Nickname:"localhost"

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated

Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1

Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

Encryption key:off

Power Management:off

Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-97 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm

Rx invalid nwid:31 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0

Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Strange as I've set WPA-PSK key yet shows no encryption key set.

In Wirless Settings in Network & Internet > Set up a new network interface, I've set it up as WPA/WPA2 Pre-Shared Key which is not quite the same as on router as router is set to WPA-PSK encryption. Everything else set to automatic i.e DHCP etc.

I've done all the system updates and installed wpa_supplicant Version: 0.6.3 as suggested in another thread but not seemed to do any good.

Something I just happen to fall over was this.. I looked at the wlan system service which wasn't running. so click START and got the following.

(See screenshot)

No idea how to fix that or if its the cause of the problem.

Any ideas please peeps?

Thanks very much

MrD