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Fox7799

Post subject: wifi connection problems with Genesi smartbook

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:42 pm

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Sometimes I will be somewhere and can't connect to the local wifi internet using wicd on my Genesi Efika smartbook with the stock Gnome desktop that comes with the smartbook. At home I have no problem connecting wirelessly and on the road I can connect if I boot Bodhi Linux from the SD card. I will get a message saying wrong password when I know for sure it is the right password. This makes me think it has something to do with the keyring login, etc. The keyring login does pop up at home, I enter the password and the wifi works. I have searched all over for an answer but can't find one. Any idea or solution would be appreciated. Thanks

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R. Tim Coslet

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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:53 pm

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My SmartBook has never liked secure WEP, but works fine on secure WPA. Unsecured both work fine. Do you know if the hotspot is WEP or WPA?

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Fox7799

Post subject: RE: wifi connection problems with Genesi smartbook

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:19 pm

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All connections were wpa. I wonder if I need to bring up the keyring somehow when I am connecting to a new wifi. If so, I need to know how. Thanks

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steev

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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:46 am

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You might want to try some versions of compat-wireless, I personally like the 2012-02-03 release. There is one minor change where you basically clean out compat_atomic64.c (I think it's it's name, I'm going off memory) because we provide what it tries to already in our kernel.

Steev Klimaszewski, Genesi USA Inc.
Senior Software Engineer

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