Dell Vostro 1720 - Wireless - WPA

[Klinux]

Hi, I recently installed PCLinuxOS2009.3 on my laptop a Dell Vostro 1720, everything went fine, but I have one problem:
wireless works normally at my home (no encryption enabled), but at my university, where there is WPA2 enabled i cannot connect, when I start the configuration, at a point, the NumLock and CapsLock start to blink and I cannot finish the wizard, nothing else works, unless the power button.
How do I fix this???

[coolbreeze]

Hi, I recently installed PCLinuxOS2009.3 on my laptop a Dell Vostro 1720, everything went fine, but I have one problem:
wireless works normally at my home (no encryption enabled), but at my university, where there is WPA2 enabled i cannot connect, when I start the configuration, at a point, the NumLock and CapsLock start to blink and I cannot finish the wizard, nothing else works, unless the power button.
How do I fix this???

I don't believe that is a wireless issue,there was a post on the freeze, but as yet i'm unable to find it, i think it was something to do with graphics.

[Klinux]

I still think its a driver issue or a problem with the WPA software.
Does anybody have any suggestion? Things I can try?

[Klinux]

I really appreciate your help

  arghhhhhh

[Klinux]

Really nobody can help me? I need this working, so I can switch to Linux definitely

BTW, since I posted, I also tryed PClinuxOS 2009.4, same problem

[nixer]

BTW, since I posted, I also tryed PClinuxOS 2009.4, same problem

Is this referring to the 2010 KDE4 version of pclos?  Have you tried it?

I have a dell vostro 1720 with an nvidia graphics card and it is working fine with 2010 and it worked fine with 2009.x .  Sorry I can't be of any further help, 

[Gramps50]

To start I would download the 2010.1 version of PCLOS LiveCD and give it a try, this would be the latest KDE version. It might also help if you gave a little more information, such as what flavor for PCLOS you are using, the error message that was returned when the connection wasn't made.

Remember I don't think that any of the people here are mind readers so the more information you can give about the problem the better the chances of getting a solution to the problem.

[Klinux]

To start I would download the 2010.1 version of PCLOS LiveCD and give it a try, this would be the latest KDE version. It might also help if you gave a little more information, such as what flavor for PCLOS you are using, the error message that was returned when the connection wasn't made.

Flavour is: XFCE, but the same happens on KDE
Error "message" is:
>> the NumLock and CapsLock start to blink and I cannot finish the wizard, nothing else works, unless the power button.

[pags]

To start I would download the 2010.1 version of PCLOS LiveCD and give it a try, this would be the latest KDE version. It might also help if you gave a little more information, such as what flavor for PCLOS you are using, the error message that was returned when the connection wasn't made.

Flavour is: XFCE, but the same happens on KDE
Error "message" is:
>> the NumLock and CapsLock start to blink and I cannot finish the wizard, nothing else works, unless the power button.

Is it fully updated?  Have you tried the 2010.1 ISO (as suggested by Gramps50)?

[surfinusa555]

I'm not sure what your experience level with linux is, but if you let me know I can probably help you more.  Here is what I've found, as I had a similar experience.
PCLinuxOS has a very broken net applet when used with WPA/WPA2.  See my post here for my solution http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,66512.msg600749.html#msg600749 just use

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan

to find the info for your school network and set up your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf using that info.  Make sure you backup your wpa_supplicant.conf by using

Code:

cp /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.backup

Keep in mind that you will probably need to be root for all of that.  If your wireless isn't called wlan0 change wlan0 to whatever pclos calls yours.  Here is some stuff on wpa_supplicant.conf http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant#Classic_method:_wpa_supplicant.conf but don't run the sample exercise on that page that looks like this

wpa_passphrase mywireless "secretpassphrase" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

as it will erase your current configuration file.  Only use the one with a >> as that will append rather than overwrite.

If you have trouble, paste the output of `iwlist wlan0 scan` and `ifconfig` here.  And tell me which scan result is your school network.