Hello, I just want to say thank-you to the developers and other people involved in making NM what it is today. I was struggling to improve and secure my home network while still allowing my brother to connect his Ubuntu 6.10 laptop to the network without wires. The easy part of the equation was purchasing a OpenWRT supported router. The hard part was replacing the laptop's old PCMCIA Linksys WPC11 v3 802.11b adapter with something that can do WPA rather than WEP. I tried a few different PCMCIA adapters, but what I could get either didn't support any encryption other than the flawed WEP or it just didn't have stable Linux drivers. The last card which I tried was D-Link WNA-2330 [1]. I purchased it from a big box store Futureshop [2] (so I could always return it if it didn't work) and it supports WPA2. It worked out of the box on Ubuntu with the madwifi drivers. It successfully established a WPA2 encrypted connection to a test router with proprietary Linksys firmware. However, I was only able to establish a WEP encrypted link to my WRT router. For some reason, in WPA mode the client adapter de-associated from the router seconds after being connected. I was ready to give up trying to debug the issue and even started considering setting up some kind of an encrypted tunnel on top of a WEP connection when someone suggested that I give NetworkManager a try. To my surprise the installation and configuration went smoother than I expected. I didn't have to compile anything, nor tweak any config files (not that I mind). I didn't even have to configure NM to run automatically at the next boot. All I had to do was click to select my network out of the discovered list, select the encryption type and type in the passkey (and type in a keyring password). Everything worked so well, that the (relatively) worst annoyance was the keyring access prompt at each logon. After a couple of days of smooth operation my brother was very happy with the wireless connection because it was faster than his old 802.11b adapter, and I was happy now that my home network was secured by WPA2 encryption rather than WEP. Finally, I was even able to get rid of the keyring annoyance too [3].
Thanks a lot for making a great solution for non-technical users using Linux on laptops! [1] - http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=472&sec=0 [2] - http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10080887&catid=19997 [3] - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192281 P.S. I'm not subscribed to this mailing list. -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ - against HTML mail & vCards _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list