[SOLVED] No wireless WPA-PSK on CrunchBang 8.10.02

I registered here at the forum mainly to (re)post it  for the benefit of other such lost souls.

After bursts of searching hither and tither, followed by trying the different recipes that seemed adequate for solving the problem of my Acer Aspire 1694WLMi laptop (equiped with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network adapter) not managing to connect to my wireless network (broadcast by a D-Link DSL-G624T modem/router) protected with WPA-PSK, I finally just found a solution that's so easy and simple only a noob like myself would have missed it...

The problem was linear -- I saw the wireless network when I clicked the NetworkManager applet, but whenever I tried to connect/setup, the entered WPA-PSK key would be changed and the connection would fail.

To cut a long story short, after googling for "intrepid ipw2200 can't connect wireless wpa-psk", I finally found a solution in a thread at the Ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=971872

There, at page 2, lies the holy grail for this nagging problem, which is so simple as to blind the common mortal:

sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-9-generic

(TYVM, alge)

After a longer than usual install, with a few ominous errors in between and a full reboot, I automagically managed to connect to the wireless network.

Now the relevant part of the output for my 'uname -a' is:

2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 18:59:16 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Hope this will save someone hours of despair...

EDIT: it should be said here for the benefit of search engine hits that this applies to a #! version based upon Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10...

Last edited by Midas (2009-07-14 23:02:36)