[ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Rohit V Bhute <rvbhute at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So if anyone has setup a home Wi-Fi network with WPA2 encryption on
> > Ubuntu, could they please let me know the card make and model? I am in
> > Mumbai and the same model should be easily found here.
>
> I am writing this post from a laptop running Fedora connected to my
> router which has WPA2 enabled. And my friend next to me has his laptop
> connected too. It runs on Ubuntu. We can easily connect to WPA2
> enabled wireless networks.
> It's not about linux not supporting WPA2, it depends upon what your
> wireless driver supports. Find out what wireless card you have and pay
> a visit to http://www.linuxwireless.com to check what are the
> recommended drivers and what do those support. If those support WPA2
> then it would be easy to connect to WPA2 enable wireless network using
> NetworkManager.
>

Both Mehul and Onkar's suggestions are correct. You need driver support.
There's one more thing  you could try, althought it's a longshot.
I don't know if you can do this on your router, but you can check it out.
You can use WPA security and in the "Encryption  Type" field, see if you can

select AES-CCMP instead of TKIP.
That should make your connection quite secure as well.

Thanks,
Raseel
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