Yep, I forgot to mention that i did remove the currently running driver by ordering network manager to close down the wireless interfaces but unchecking the box when right-clicking on the icon and then just running a rmmod command in a terminal window. was going to change that but can edit posts on here from what i can see..............
had a feeling that the network manager was doing the wpasupplicant as and when or I would not be able to use WPA in the first place! one thing I have learned by starting out with Opensuse then going on to ubuntu is that distro are flexible when it comes to directory structure, could not find the supplicant .conf file and it ending up turning up in /etc about 4 or 5 levels down! thanks for the tip on the patch command, makes more sense now.. I guess that I need wait to see if other people are able to do WPA2 on the 2.1.0.0 driver, and trawl through the logs it see there are any functions or warning coming up that may be related to wpa or the driver. for the record i am running:- rt2860 driver 2.1.0.0 patched with Dries' file Ubuntu standard Kernel 2.6.28-11-generic Connected to the Belkin N+ modem router with WPA (TKIP) encryption only -- [Jaunty] wireless rt2860 not connecting to WPA https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339891 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
