WPA (PSK) in Ubuntu

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Sat Nov 6 12:44:00 UTC 2004


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.  

You need to get the kernel headers for your kernel version (and gcc &
make). The download wpa_supplicant (GIYF) and compile it.

I'm working on a nice tutorial for this, but if you're any good at
compiling things yourself you don't need a tutorial :)
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!





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