WiFi Management

[Tom H]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Mikie <kmb at mikienet.com> wrote:
>
> I have installed Ubuntu server and had the install script detect and
> configure a wireless adapter during setup and this has worked perfectly
> forever … boot after boot.
>
> How is this done if Network-Manager-Gnome is not installed?
>
> I have been trying to manually set this up and can't figure it out no matter
> how many articles I read.
>
> I must be missing a config file.
>
> In /etc/network/interfaces … I have:
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>                 wpa-ssid myEssid
>                 wpa-psk myPassword
>
> What could I be missing?

Nothing. ifupdown uses the two "wpa-..." lines in
"/etc/network/interfaces" to bring up wlan0.