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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