Comments on: Ubuntu Dapper Drake and WPA-Encrypted Wireless

By: Goodbye Windows, Hello Ubuntu! | Edward's Block

Goodbye Windows, Hello Ubuntu! | Edward's Block — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:05:59 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:17:06 +0000

This did work very well. One additional caveat is that if you have a wireless card on your laptop, that is plugged in to a PCI slot, you do not want to comment out the wireless card’s interface in the /etc/network/interfaces file. I swap an Ethernet and a wifi card alternately. Having both capable of being active relies on not commenting out either in that config file. Other than that, easy as pie!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:08:37 +0000

So much for wpa_supplicant issues! This worked great! Thanks.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:06:00 +0000

Bram: That depends on the file you are editing. In config files in /etc, you usually “comment out” stuff by putting a # sign at the beginning of the respective line.

HOWEVER: I believe my instructions up here are slightly outdated, as they refer to a Ubuntu version that’s been updated three times (or so) since I wrote this. In other words: Newer Ubuntu versions should have much better wireless support out of the box and probably do not need these instructions anymore.

Either way, have fun with Ubuntu!

By: Bram

Bram — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:00:40 +0000

Err, I don’t want to be stupid, but I just got Ubuntu and how do you “comment out” something? Like in PHP, just add // ?

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:19:04 +0000

Followed the instructions. It doesn’t seem to work with WPA1 personal. The computer is waiting for a key to be received. However, WPA personal doesn’t get a key you supply it . I never get the second request to enter a key. Anyone know what else I need to do to get this to work or should I simply upgrade to 7.10?

By: Suraj

Suraj — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:39:11 +0000

I was struggling with wpa, but then what i did was make the wireless point dhcp, and make it visible, and then it worked

By: Dusibello

Dusibello — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:16:13 +0000

I’m glad you posted this and and I’m glad Google took me to it…

By: dohboy

dohboy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:57:49 +0000

Unfortunately your howto didnt add WPA to my system. The gnome network manager is nice, but when it prompts me to enter the network credentials, the drop-down only has the following encryption options for me: “WEP 128 Bit Passphrase”, “WEP 64/128 Bit Hex”, and “WEP 64/128 Bit ASCII” .. no options for wpa appear anywhere. When I look at running process list, wpa_supplicant is not running (and im pretty sure this needs to be running). My understanding was that the gnome-network-manager would automatically set up this stuff but maybe I’m wrong about that. Any suggestions?

By: Ubuntu noob

Ubuntu noob — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:43:57 +0000

Awesome! That worked for me like butter

thanks.