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Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN

Postby rstanley » 2010-04-12 15:23
Hello!

I have an interesting problem. I am using a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN builting Wireless card on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500. Wireless works fine in Windows but not in KDE, no matter what I do. On occasion it does establish a connection, but if I reboot, I cannot reconnect. I was on testing and now am using Sid. I always use KDE, but also have Gnome installed.

Interestingly, I logged in using Gnome the other day to test something else, and much to my surprise, it immediately established a connection and has since worked flawlessly in Gnome, but not in KDE. I am at a loss to figure out what the problem is, and how to correct the KDE system. No, it's not my essid or my passphrase.

Rather than post a lot of information initially, I would be happy to present any and all details that will help to correct this problem. I am not the only one in this boat, as I have done a lot of research on my own.

KDE 4.3.4

`uname -a` == "Linux linus 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

Debian "Sid"

I welcome any suggestions.

Thank you all in advance!

Rick

What are you using to try to establish the connection? If you find the that KNetworkManager is not able to maintain your connection, you can try to use GNOME's Network Manager under KDE.

Run the following in order to do this:

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kquitapp knetworkmanager
nm-applet &