Wireless - WPA2 - CANT CONNECT
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 8 00:21:43 UTC 2009
On 09/06/2009 10:11 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Tiago V. Pereira wrote:
>> I have finally figured out a way to install my wireless connection
>> under Ubuntu 9.04. Thanks for the tips.
>>
>> However, I cannot connect to WPA2.
>>
>> Interestingly, I can connect to unsecured connections without
>> problems. Wired (cable) connections also work beautiful.
>
> Please tell us which wireless network card you have. You can find out
> with the command
>
> sudo lshw -C network
>
> in a terminal (if you don't already know the type). Furthermore, how did
> you try to connect to the WPA2 network? Did you use network manager or
> wicd?
>
> BTW: Some older wireless cards are not WPA2 capable. Did you try if it
> works with WPA? Granted, WPA isn't secure but it is at least worth to
> try it.
>
>
> Nils
Also might be worth checking to see if wpasupplicant is installed:
$ apt-cache policy wpasupplicant
wpasupplicant:
Installed: 0.6.6-2ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.6.6-2ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.6.6-2ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/wpasupplicant
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bugs
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