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It's not surprising that your HP printer worked out of the box since HP ships computers with Mandriva preinstalled. :)

Besides, make sure you have this line in /etc/modprobe.conf (assuming you have a 2.6 kernel):

alias wlan0 XXX

where XXX is the module for your WiFi nic.

 

Yves.

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It already has this in /etc/modprobe.conf

what module is the card using? Is it being autoloaded?

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It's hosap-pci and it's not loading at boot. Also I get the error message that wlan0 failed when I boot.

To reset the connection, run as root:

/etc/init.d/network(or networking) restart.

 

You can then put that into a script, which should work as long as it's run as root, to automate it.

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I can try that but I explained to Yves the card doesn't even show up as being recognized in MCC unless I manually go thru the whole internet set up again.

OK, so you go through all the steps each time, and by "reset" you mean you validate the Wizard at the end. Is that so?

 

What is the device for it? (It is probably wlan0)

Could you post the corresponding ifcfg file (eg: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0)?

 

BTW, do you have any way to know if it is the whole config that you have to reset each time, or just WPE/WPA? I ask because I was not able myself to enable WPE/WPA automatically on link-up (with hotplug), so I won't be able to help you with that.

 

BTW2 :) Is this WiFi nic always up (at boot): eg. PCI, or is it hotpluggable: eg: USB?

 

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EVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
USERCTL=yes
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=any
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=no
PEERNTPD=no

My network card doesn't even show up in MCC unless I reconfigure it. And it's a pci card.

How do you see it is detected fine? And how do you "reset" the connexion?

 

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I use the Internet Connection Wizard in MCC and chose wireless and just go thru the steps. The card shows up

I don't use ndiswrapper but thanks. :)

Well I never did anything else with this but we had a power outage and when my box rebooted I had a new internal ip. So I logged into my router, changed my ip and ssh started working. Go figure.

I have gentoo on my main box with a netgear router and have Mandriva on my daughter's box and I use a Netgear MA311 wireless nic. I just upgraded from 10.1 to LE and now everytime her computer reboots I have to reset the connection. It detects the card just fine every time when I go to reset the connection and it's worked fine with earlier versions of Mandrake. Any ideas?

Ok, I'll check into that. Thanks for the help jboy.

Ok, tried that. Still no luck.

I do in Mandrake but not in Gentoo which is what I'm in atm.

My mistake. Yes I do have a sshd_config and I changed PAM authentication to no with the same results.

I don't have a sshd_config.

There's nothing about PAM in my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file.

It just shows a PAM authentication failure.

Nothing relevant in /var/log/messages either? Checking for PAM errors might be an idea.

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I don't have a /var/log/messages. Just for the hell of it I recompiled PAM with ssh support but it didn't make a difference. Sorry I don't feel like I'm being very helpful here but I'm just completely stumped by this problem. I've been using ssh with the same set up for almost two years and nothing has changed.

Does /var/log/secure tell you anything, on either end?

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I don't have a /var/log/secure

But the user mysti does exist on his box?

 

Are they forwarding port 22 on their setup too?

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Yes it does and he's very savvy in networking so I'm sure his box is set up correctly.

do an ssh -vvv and post the results...

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mystified@gentoo ~ $ ssh -vvv mysti@xx.xxx.xxx.xx
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to xx.xxx.xxx.xx [xx.xxx.xxx.xx] port 22.
debug1: connect to address xx.xxx.xxx.xx port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host xx.xxx.xxx.xx port 22: Connection refused

I blocked out the user's ip at his request.

Also Qchem the same thing happens if he tries to ssh into my box.

Just one ip and it's my internal ip.

iptables isn't installed and Shields Up shows port 22 as being open

I don't have a denyusers file and the others look fine as far as I can tell.

this is part of the response of netstat -anpt

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

No tcpwrapper. And no errors for clues other than what I posted.

I'm out of ideas myself.

Same problem. The only firewall I have is the NAT firewall on my router. And I have been able to successfully ssh out of this box before with no changes to the configuration.