Hi John, Junhao, i have managed to get things to work at home using Network Manager if i turn off WPA. (The problem was that i had assumed that the PCMCIA card is hotpluggable, and it isn't. How embarrassing.)
Anyway, i still can't figure how to get it to work with WPA (using Network Manager). In the manual configuration for Network Manager, there is an option for WEP, but not for WPA. Any suggestion? Thanks and Regards, Edwin --- John Thng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > __________________________________ Meet your soulmate! Yahoo! Asia presents Meetic - where millions of singles gather http://asia.yahoo.com/meetic _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
