In KDE my wireless network is detectable but I can not log on to it. I've tried Debian, Mint, PCBSD, Opensuse, all those Os's I can not log on to my wireless. But with Gnome no problem.

My computer = Thinkpad x61. Please help.

What form of wireless security does the network use? WEP/WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK should all work fine, not sure about the other types ( haven't tested them myself )

What kind of behaviour do you get when it fails to connect?

It uses WEP -- when I try to connect it just searches and says authorizing or looking for it and it doesn't find it.

It's weird b/c I have tried many KDE distros . . . my laptop is thinkpad x61 a pretty standard one . . . . I knew before there was a bug in the kdenetworkmanager . . . . ??

Can you please enable all debugging areas using "kdebugdialog", then monitor ~/.xsession-errors (using a tool such as tail) to see if any relevant error messages are output?

Also, please confirm you are entering the key and any other relevant network details correctly.

Having exactly the same problem. No need to add more info because i believe your issue is similar to mine

bcooksley wrote:Can you please enable all debugging areas using "kdebugdialog", then monitor ~/.xsession-errors (using a tool such as tail) to see if any relevant error messages are output?

Also, please confirm you are entering the key and any other relevant network details correctly.

can you clarify these steps, sorry i am new to Linux in general.

Thanks

kdebugdialog is an application that you run either from Konsole or Krunner (alt+F2) that tells KDE to monitor the selected apps for errors and place the errors in ~/.xsession-errors. When kdedialog opens click the "select all" button, then "ok"

~/.xsession-errors is an error log file, errors will be written to it as requested in kdebugdialog

tail is a command line program that displays the tail (bottom, last lines written) of a file

after you run a program that doesn't work properly you would type "tail ~/.xsession-errors" to see the most recent errors reported, hopefully there would be an indication of what is causing your issue.

okay, my network manager icon keep on doing 2 things each time i try to connect, one "waiting for authorization" two "setting network". So i entered the tail command twice, once during "setting network" which is after "waiting for authorization" and the other after complete failing to connect.

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princekhaled@ubuntu:~$ tail ~/.xsession-errors
kio_http(2177) HTTPProtocol::sendQuery: "Accept-Encoding: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate"
kio_http(2177) HTTPProtocol::sendQuery: "Accept-Charset: utf-8, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5"
kio_http(2177) HTTPProtocol::sendQuery: "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9"
kio_http(2177)/kio_http_debug HTTPProtocol::httpShouldCloseConnection: Keep Alive: true
kio_http(2177)/kio_http_debug HTTPProtocol::httpOpenConnection:
kio_http(2177)/kio (TCPSlaveBase) KIO::TCPSlaveBase::disconnectFromHost:
kio_http(2177)/kio_http_debug HTTPProtocol::sendQuery: Couldn't connect, oopsie!
kio_http(2177)/kio_http_debug HTTPProtocol::httpClose: keepAlive = true
kio_http(2177)/kio_http_debug HTTPProtocol::cacheFileClose:
kio_http(2177)/kio_http_debug HTTPProtocol::httpClose: keep alive ( 60 )

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princekhaled@ubuntu:~$ tail ~/.xsession-errors
konsole(2247)/kdeui (KIconLoader) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: 6303744 bytes available out of 10485760
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method Konsole::Application::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
konsole(2247)/kdeui (KMainWindow) KMainWindow::applyMainWindowSettings: KMainWindow::applyMainWindowSettings  "MainWindow"
konsole(2247)/kdeui (KGlobalAccel) KActionCollection::addAction: Registering action  "options_show_menubar"  under new name  "show-menubar"
konsole(2247)/kdeui (KMainWindow) KMainWindow::applyMainWindowSettings: KMainWindow::applyMainWindowSettings  "MainWindow"
konsole(2247)/kdecore (KStartupInfo) KStartupInfo::sendFinish: sending  "remove:  ID="ubuntu;1299981560;581974;1566_TIME715103" "
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/princekhaled/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
princekhaled@ubuntu:~$

I really need help with it.
Thanks

In this case, it seems that the relevant messages aren't being output to ~/.xsession-errors (note that you should run tail, and leave it running during the operation you are trying to test)

Perhaps check the content of /var/log/NetworkManager or equivalent? (/var/log/messages)

linguistic76 wrote:In KDE my wireless network is detectable but I can not log on to it. I've tried Debian, Mint, PCBSD, Opensuse, all those Os's I can not log on to my wireless. But with Gnome no problem.

My computer = Thinkpad x61. Please help.

Hi, check this out man, I've set up Networkmanager-GNOME to work on KDE4 on OpenSUSE 11.4. It probably solves your problem:

http://susestarter.blogspot.com/2011/03/step-2-need-mobile-broadband-use-gnome.html

Just do it step by step. If another distro, be careful to deinstall and install the right packages. For further questions message me on irc.freenode.org (woodefec) or via PM KDE forums, i'll be checking out.

Having little bit same problem.
i'm unable to configure the mobile broadband(wireless) in kde.
In network management i'm unable to select the the the 'mobile broadband' button.. and i don't have any previosly network connection..!!
please help..

azadsam wrote:Having little bit same problem.
i'm unable to configure the mobile broadband(wireless) in kde.
In network management i'm unable to select the the the 'mobile broadband' button.. and i don't have any previosly network connection..!!
please help..

Try the nm-applet from GNOME. If u use openSUSE, can easily follow the instructions from herehttp://susestarter.blogspot.com/2011/03/step-2-need-mobile-broadband-use-gnome.html.

Best regards.

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azadsam wrote:Having little bit same problem.
i'm unable to configure the mobile broadband(wireless) in kde.
In network management i'm unable to select the the the 'mobile broadband' button.. and i don't have any previosly network connection..!!
please help..

Try the nm-applet from GNOME. If u use openSUSE, can easily follow the instructions from herehttp://susestarter.blogspot.com/2011/03/step-2-need-mobile-broadband-use-gnome.html.

Best regards.

i'm using ubuntu and nm applet doesn't support mobile boadbandin kde ...
i tried through blueman too..but it says connection not supported..