Wireless not connecting after standby / reboot

[M-88]

I've been having a problem with the wireless here at my college campus. We have an 802.11n network with a few different networks

The first network is open wireless. It just has Internet Access
The second is a WPA2 preshared key network, it has access to network resources
Third is a network that requires network credentials to log in
And the last is a wpa2 preshared network for xboxes, etc

I have the problem that when I put my laptop in standby or even after turning it off, it won't connect to any network; the open wireless or 2nd network I listed. I get the two circles going around in a circle.

If it's the open wireless, the circles will just go around forever.

On the wpa2 network, the circles will go for 5 minutes and then the bbox for network key comes up. If I enter the key same thing; circles for 5 minutes and the key box pops back up

I'm running Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.04) and the card is Atheros 5007EG

[waterhead]

Install the Wicd network connection manager and see if that works better for you.

You can install it using the Synaptic Package Manager, and it will uninstall NetworkManager. You will need an internet connection to do this.

[M-88]

WiCD seemed to work for a few days but now Ubuntu itself seems to be completely broken.

Guess I'll backup and switch to openSUSE. Gotta give the red hat based distros some respect haha

[waterhead]

That's weird. I assume it broke after an update. Once you get a working system, you can always disable the updates.

I believe Suse was originally based on the Softlanding Linux System (SLS) distribution. This graphical timeline shows Suse being a branch of Slackware:

http://futurist.se/gldt/gldt93.png

[M-88]

Interesting never knew that.



Still not sure if I want to switch or not. The biggest thing keeping me from going to openSUSE is support of the Atheros 5007eg card.

[waterhead]

If you use the latest version of Suse, then the driver may already be in the kernel. And you can aleays install the latest version of the drivers using the compat-wireless driver package,

Download - Linux Wireless

You need a kernel that is 2.6.22 or newer.