Ubuntu, Laptop, Wireless card and Mac Airport

[David Miller]

Raoul Snyman wrote:

> has anyone had any experience with the above set of hardware?
> the reason i'm asking is that a friend of mine has given me a linksys wireless 
> network card for my laptop, and although ubuntu seems to detect it fine, i 
> cannot get it to link to the wireless hub, an apple-mac "Airport". My friend 
> apparently connects fine from his windows laptop, so why can't i?

The only thing I can think of is that airport base stations tend to use 
text-based passwords, so make sure you put "s:" in front of the password 
when you specify it.

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