I have been fighting at UL with our campus wireless network requiring a vpn setup. I think i just found a solution (pptpconfig), and I will test it out tomorrow.
My home network has WPA, and I use it with no problem at all. Check out the program NetworkManager (and nmapplet). It's in the repositories for Ubuntu, but I have no idea why it does not come activated by default, at least for laptops. It handles switching between different AP and wired networks without any input from me other than a password when I log in to access the keyring. This is a Gnome app, and uses DBus, but should work with whatever you are running. Hi BRLUG :) --mat willhill wrote: > LSU is about to roll out a new wireless encryption scheme with "limited > support" for "unix." > > http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=1464 > > http://appl003.lsu.edu/itsweb/securityweb.nsf/$Content/Wireless+Network+Usage?OpenDocument > > The schemes are, "Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) for > authentication and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) with Temporal Key Integrity > Protocol (TKIP) for encryption." wpa_supplicant and x_supplicant are the > recommended applications to make this work, but the hardware list looks tiny > and most of them were shown as not working with Fedora in a testing chart I > saw. > > Does anyone have experience with this? > > I found this, > > http://www.fmepnet.org/debian_wpa.html > > and would like to know what you think. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
