[clue-tech] wireless on Ubuntu

[Tony McDowell]

Which Ubuntu are you using?  My experiences with wireless on Ubuntu have
varied greatly.  In 6.10 and previous, good luck with WPA (it's _possible_,
but only by hacking .confs).  I was, however, able to use WEP successfully
without too much muss on both 6.10 and 6.06.  I played with 7.04 on my
ThinkPad T21 very briefly and I was able to connect to my WPA-PSK access
point without issue.

-tony

On 6/6/07, dennisjperkins at comcast.net <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I spent last evening figuring out how to get WEP working on an Ubuntu
> desktop.  WPA would be better but the access point uses shared (restricted)
> WEP.  Considering how well Ubuntu set everything else up, I'm surprised at
> what was required to get WEP working.  It detected the Atheros chip and
> installed madwifi correctly.
>
> Ubuntu wants you to use NetworkManager to configure the network.  That is
> where my problems began.  It seems too primitive if you want more than basic
> WEP.  (I haven't tried it with WPA, so maybe that is better.)  I could set a
> key, but I could not set restricted mode.  Multiple keys can't be set, but I
> don't know how useful that feature is anyway.
>
> Maybe I asked the wrong question, but Ubuntu's documentation seems to
> gloss over WEP as much as possible.  I finally found the necessary
> information on the Madwifi site.
>
> Luckily I didn't need to set up roaming profiles.
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