I have been having this problem where my wireless cards (on my desktop and laptop) drop and ask me for password which has been already entered.
the command sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py shows:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"ThisIsNotYourWiFi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: A0:21:B7:E3:BB:AA
Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=51/70 Signal level=-59 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:14 Invalid misc:283 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 14:da:e9:48:21:92
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:18 Memory:fbd00000-fbd20000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:14595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1589178 (1.5 MB) TX bytes:1589178 (1.5 MB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b0:48:7a:89:fd:81
inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::b248:7aff:fe89:fd81/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:530516 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:171305 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:782235245 (782.2 MB) TX bytes:17693346 (17.6 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 194.168.4.100
Address: 194.168.4.100#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.134
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.142
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.136
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.135
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.129
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.137
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.128
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.133
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.131
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.130
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.132
I am running Mate 14 Nadia on both machines. I have tried installing Wicd along side Network Manager, but did not help.
Thanks
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