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
