I've had varying success with the WPA in Ubuntu and Kubuntu. However, I think they might be the first ones to integrate WPA into relatively easy gui. (I've seen notions about wpa supplicant gui, but never found one from any repositories in the past....)
I do not know why the wpa system is not consistent though.... For example in my home network using WPA-PSK-TKIP, I was able to connect with no problems..... Then a bout a week later not anymore.... Now the system automatically connects to my neighbor's wide open wlan, and I have not found a way to prevent that. (Other than pulling the nic out of the laptop....) Petri Joe Fruchey wrote: > I run WPA-PSK-TKIP at home, and I've had experience with Ubuntu Edgy > and Fedora Core 6. (with my Atheros-based WNIC) > > Edgy worked perfectly OOB. It recognized the card as ath0, it started > up NetworkManager, which found my network and asked for the key. > > Fedora doesn't include madwifi, so I installed it from the Livna repo, > rebooted, and had a wifi0. #chkconfig NetworkManager, and $service > NetworkManager start were required. Wi-Fi from the command line is too > much trouble. > > Joe > > On 2/1/07, Joshua Frug? <joshuafruge at gmail.com> wrote: > >> This may have already been posted, I didn't read the links >> >> http://appl003.lsu.edu/ocsweb/otchome.nsf/$Content/Config+Instructions+Linux?OpenDocument >> >> >> On 2/1/07, Joshua Frug? <joshuafruge at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You might be surprised at the amount of linux users at LSU ITS, 1/2 of >>> >> the swamp uses linux (ubuntu) as their desktop. The network monitoring >> software is running on freebsd. LSU's dns servers run rhel and the dhcp >> servers run rhel and fedora, there are also several suse boxes around... and >> I'm just talking about noc stuff >> >>> -Joshua >>> >>> >>> >>> On 1/31/07, Shannon Roddy < sroddy at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/31/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> LSU is about to roll out a new wireless encryption scheme with >>>>> >> "limited >> >>>>> support" for "unix." >>>>> >>>> Ah yes... LSU's battles with wireless. I am glad I don't have to deal >>>> with it much, maybe a couple times a year now. Unfortunately I can't >>>> offer any specific advice, but I can say that LSU's wireless problems >>>> have actually caused some problems for my $employer, believe it or >>>> not. Long story. Anyway, I know one of the guys that is in the thick >>>> of the battle with LSU wireless and I can ask him what they are >>>> planning on doing for the Linux folk, since he uses Linux on the >>>> desktop (one of the few net guys on campus that does AFAIK). As you >>>> probably also know, LSU is beholden to M$, IBM, and Cisco and >>>> basically doesn't do much outside of those three vendors. >>>> >>>> -Shannon >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> General mailing list >>>> General at brlug.net >>>> >>>> >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
