On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:06 +0000, Charlie de Courcy wrote: > > > Phillip Chandler said the following on 30/10/08 16:11: > > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:34 +0000, Charlie de Courcy wrote: > > > >> Phillip Chandler said the following on 30/10/08 14:55: > >> > >>> (K)Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora do seem to have a problem with wpa2 wireless. > >>> Debian Lenny needs 5 mins work to get wpa. > >>> > >>> > >> I've not had a problem with WPA under Ubuntu. > >> 'sudo aptitude install wpasupplicant' > >> and everything works fine with network-manager etc? > >> > >> - Charlie > >> > > > > So what sort of hardware are you guys running ? Ive got a Dell Inspiron > > 1200, 512mb ram, Belkin F5D7010 Ver7000uk Wireless card, and seem to > > have problems with wpa2 encryption. > > > > Plus under Ubuntu 7.10 I install ndiswrapper and use the net8185 driver, > > and wpa2 works 101%. > > > > > > > > My desktop is a custom AMD64 3200+ 2GB ram, Nvidia & Marvel Gig-E, > Broadcom BCM4306 Wireless and all works fine. > > Laptop is a Toshiba Tecra M5, Core Duo, Intel 82573L Gig-E, Intel > 3945ABG wireless. > > I've just upgraded and nm-applet wasn't showing here also. I added the > following to sources: > > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu intrepid main > > > and changed /etc/network/interfaces to only have the following lines > uncommented: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > Now everything is working fine! Looks good - seems to all be running OK > so far... > There aren't any WPA points here - I'll check later and report if I have > any problems at home with WPA2... >
Under Debian I have to do the following from a terminal. gedit /etc/default/ifplugd And add the following to the file: INTERFACES="eth0" HOTPLUG_INTERFACES="wlan0" ARGS="-q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I" SUSPEND_ACTION="stop" gedit /etc/network/interfaces And add the following to the file: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp # Wireless... (this section may or may not already exist) allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp gedit /etc/default/wpasupplicant And add the following to the file: ENABLED=1 OPTIONS="-w -i wlan0 -D hostap -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" Then in terminal enter wpa_passphrase <mywirelessname> <mypassword> gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf And replace everything with: # WPA-PSK network={ ssid="MY WIRELESS NAME" proto=WPA key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=TKIP psk="VERY LONG ENCRYPTION KEY GOES HERE" priority=4 } Then my wpa2 wireless works, but only after installing wicd as well. So Im confused as to why Im having wpa problems with most other distros. But then I dont do any of the above with Ubuntu 7.10 except install wicd and my card inf file ????? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------