Thread: Can't connect to wireless networks

i have wireless network works fine laptop (which has ubuntu studio 10.04 installed), has never worked desktop despite years , years of wasting occasional weekend trying...

today, got further usual updating firmware (to 1.8.2) following instructions @ http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/

allowed network manager see wireless network! (though strangely, not show other available networks in neighborhood laptop can see. it's doing right since detects changes in name , security settings of network -- maybe range of wireless card less?) however, when set wireless security 'none,' connection fails.

/var/log/daemon.log shows errors along line of

code:

home wpa_supplicant[831]: association request driver failed

i'm ready give (or @ least try new wireless card or ethernet adapter), thought i'd ask first if has ideas what's going wrong?

here's possibly useful diagnostic stuff:

code:

$ sudo lspci -v  01:06.0 network controller: intersil corporation prism 2.5 wavelan chipset (rev 01)  	subsystem: intersil corporation prism 2.5 wavelan chipset  	flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, irq 16  	memory @ fdeff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4k]  	capabilities: [dc] power management version 2  	kernel driver in use: hostap_pci  	kernel modules: hostap_pci, orinoco_pci    $sudo lshw -c network    *-network                        description: wireless interface         product: prism 2.5 wavelan chipset         vendor: intersil corporation         physical id: 6         bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0         logical name: wifi0         version: 01         serial: 00:09:5b:2f:19:10         width: 32 bits         clock: 33mhz         capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical wireless ethernet physical         configuration: broadcast=yes driver=hostap firmware=1.8.2 latency=32 multicast=yes wireless=ieee 802.11b         resources: irq:16 memory:fdeff000-fdefffff(prefetchable)    $ iwlist scan  lo        interface doesn't support scanning.    eth0      interface doesn't support scanning.    wifi0     scan completed :            cell 01 - address: 00:23:69:b0:e5:8b                      essid:"linksass2"                      mode:master                      frequency:2.437 ghz (channel 6)                      encryption key:off    wlan0     scan completed :            cell 01 - address: 00:23:69:b0:e5:8b                      essid:"linksass2"                      mode:master                      frequency:2.437 ghz (channel 6)                      encryption key:off

try using wicd

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