[clue-tech] wireless on Ubuntu

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

Ubuntu 7.04.  

If you don't use shared/restricted WEP, it's easy.  Just use NetworkManager.  If you use shared WEP, you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces by hand.  That's not so hard, just one more line in interfaces, but finding the information took some time.  I did a fair amount of googling to find out how to do it.

To be fair, it handles Atheros much better than the newest Fedora.  No support for madwifi from Fedora.  The two sites that were mentioned for the madwifi RPMs have bad RPMs because they have circular dependencies.  I didn't feel like figuring out how to make madwifi work on Fedora after compiling, so I just wiped Fedora and put Ubuntu on.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Tony McDowell" <svet.am at gmail.com>
> 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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