Ubuntu Wireless WPA Configuration Help

[Capt Doufos]

Hi,

Has anyone got this working successfully?

I was messing around all last night without success. I followed all the guides I could find with no joy.

The Card is detected, it's a Intel 2200 in a Centrino laptop. I have the WIFI Supplicant installed and the Network Monitor.

I installed WIFI Radar and I can see networks, so the wierless card is definitely working.

Reading guides you are supposed to edit the wpa_supplicant.conf found in /etc but this didn't exist. ? copied one over and edited that. But still no joy.

Any body know how to go about getting this working without resorting to WEP?

Thanks

 

[Capt Doufos]

Thanks for the info. I think I have gotten a little further. I get a lot of errors when I try to start wpa_supplicant and it says frequency = 0mhz even though I specified channel 6 in iwconfig.

I will keep at it. I WILL get it working!!!

 

[Capt Doufos]

Cheers I will give those a try.

Sumanji:

I am using 6.10 and that pretty much has everything installed you need.

The first place to go is the intergrated help. There is loads of info on supported wireless chipsets etc. The whole ubuntu documentation is very good, just click the help icon and search for the program name.

Programs to look at are:

iwconfig, ifconfig, wpa_supplicant, wpa_passphrase, and network monitor.

It isn't staright forward. Although I found a program that runs on KDE that has a GUI that intergrates most of those tools. I guess you need to be using Kbuntu though to make use of it.