Edwin Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > 1. i just installed Ubuntu on an old hand-me-down laptop, and was trying to > get > the WiFi to work. i have two wireless adapters: a Linksys (can't remember > model > offhand) which i used ndiswrapper to install its driver, and a Cisco Aironet > 350, which is reported to work natively. Anyway, i think the wireless cards > work, 'cos when i brought the laptop down to Starbucks, they (i tried both) > could detect the [EMAIL PROTECTED] network, among many others (using Network > Manager > here). However, even after selecting the network ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), it > doesn't seem > to be assigned an IP address (according to ifconfig). Trying to access the web > using Firefox also gave me a connection error instead of being directed to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] login page. It seems like i have probably missed a step or > two in > the process, but what is it? > > 2. Now, i would like to switch between using the laptop at home wirelessly > (currently it's wired) and in public (through [EMAIL PROTECTED]) just by > selecting > the appropriate network via Network Manager. The difficulty is that my home > network is set to NOT broadcast SSID, and also to use WPA, which means i would > have to make use of the WPA supplicant, which means having to modify the > wpa-supplicant config file whenever i want to switch networks. Is there any > way > around this? > > > > Thanks in Advance and Regards, > Edwin > >
1) Native Aironet350 drivers only support (up to?) a certain firmware revision. Couldn't remember which one; check the Changelog for details. If your firmware is significantly more updated, it might be better to use ndiswrapper instead. 2) wpa_supplicant supports the use of several network configurations. You can prioritise the networks too. The latest versions also allow for a "blank" network configuration to automatically connect to open, unencrypted networks (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Check the wpa_supplicant website, and the example configuration file for details. If you really, really must use a GUI interface, wpa_supplicant provides wpa_gui too. -- Regards, Junhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jmarki.net/ "Oops, what happened?", said Confused Jmarki _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
