Hi, My home network is also set to NOT broadcast SSID, and also to use WPA2 But I can connect to it using network manager last time, just manually type your network info into the network manager gui, if you have wpa support too. And it will auto connect next time after you connected the first time. Good Luck
Regards John On 6/20/07, Junhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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