[dennis at kaarsemaker.net: Re: WPA (PSK) in Ubuntu]

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:03:31 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to the ubuntu-doc list...
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>  - mdz
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> From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:25:41 +0100
> Subject: Re: WPA (PSK) in Ubuntu
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 05:23 -0500, Bryan Pizzuti wrote:
> > Ok, I finally got my new Thinkpad yesterday (Yay!). CPU scaling is working
> > fine, dumping a bunch of stuff onto it from Universe and Marillat right now
> > (Goody!), havn't played with getting software suspend to work yet.  One
> > problem....my home network is WPA, not WEP.  So the wireless interface
> > doesn't seem to be working.  Thinkpad T42.  I know someone else on here has
> > one, so I don't think it's a matter of a software switch not being
> > configured (Unless he's not using the IntelPro "Centrino" wireless chip?).
> > Anyway, how can I get this thing to go WPA/PSK?  I hate WEP...it's insecure
> > and I have a fileserver sitting on my network.
> 
> First draft of the howto and involved scripts, comments please :)
> (Evolution f*c**d up wrapping, sorry)

Thanks Dennis, mdz!

This is the draft of the doc, please comment on it as I can not test
it. (you can send me a thinkpad instead as well),

anyway,

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WPAHowto

greetings, Alexander Poslavsky Ubuntu Documentation Team