[ltp] strange behaviour of wireless

Arno Trautmann linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:40:37 +0100


Hi all,

just for the record of this:

Arno Trautmann wrote:
> • Having connected at home once, I am not able to connect to any other
> network, it just times out everytime. Only rebooting works. This is
> /only/ after connecting at home; using two other networks is no problem,
> and from another network to home works, too (again, only the second
> attempt)

I finally "solved" this by explicitely setting the encryption key off:

iwconfig wlan0 essid ... key off

Just leaving the argument did not unset the key, as I wrongly assumed. 
Now, the whole thing is a lot less scaring …

cheers
Arno