Hi Dave Sones I am an inexperienced ubuntu user but have found for me only xubuntu works flawlessly with my wireless setup. Tried kubuntu as well but not as good. Hope this helps. Stuart Stokes > Has anyone ever got to the bottom of the problem which exists with > Ubuntu and wireless encryption? > > I have installed Ubuntu on quite a number of laptops and desktops of > various makes and using a variety of wireless routers, but I always run > into the same problem (or a slight variation of it) when I try to use > encryption. > > At worst, the wireless connection fails completely and is only restored > after switching off encryption. But I encountered a different problem > yesterday when, after installing Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell desktop, I > started to run it using a Sky wireless router. This had encryption > enabled by default, so I entered the SSID name and the encryption > password and, much to my surprise, it worked! But then I rebooted the PC > and found that it could no longer connect to the router. A quick check > of the wireless settings showed that the encryption password had been > mysteriously altered. I re-entered the correct password and all was fine > again - until I rebooted; then the password was corrupted again. In the > end, I just switched off encryption and set restricted MAC address > permissions as being the best security I could achieve. > > You can't even stop the SSID being broadcast, because as soon as you > turn this off, Ubuntu can't find the network. > > It's really annoying and I get the same problems when I've tried 8.10. > Surely this is something that should have been sorted out by now, as it > must affect a lot of users. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > >
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