I have a laptop running F11 and I have been having strange problems with wireless.<br><br>At home I have a wireless network setup using WPA authentication and I can connect to it without problems. Yesterday I was at the airport which has a free public access wireless. I turned off wpa_supplicant, configured the wireless network for auto everything except the ssid which was set to the airport's wireless ssid. I started the network and ran iwlist wlan0 scan to see what networks where available. About a dozen showed up, only a few of which where the airport's wireless. Despite seeing available wireless networks I never succeeded in connecting to any. I tried specifying the channel number, nothing. I booted up my laptop on Windows XP and it connected immediately.<br>
<br>I arrived at my parents' house last night and tried to connect to their wireless network. I had the exact same problem. In my parents' case iwlist wlan0 scan showed only 1 network, theirs. I have been able to connect to my parents' wireless fine previously. I booted up on Windows XP and I connected immediately. This email is being sent from XP so I don't have access to the logs, but what I saw from running wireshark and tailing the messages file was that my laptop was sending out DHCP request and discover messages, but I never saw any replies. <br>
<br>Since I can connect with XP the problem is not the hardware, does any one have any ideas as to what to try? Any thoughts are appreciated.<br><br>Is wireless support improved in F12 and would this be an option?<br><br>
Thanks,<br>Paolo<br><br>