Tuesday, August 7, 2007

WPA and wireless in Ubuntu.

This problem seems to be, at least in some cases, still difficult.

This is one account, from 6.06 ubuntu.

http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html

For some machines, things seem much easier in ubuntu 7.04.

http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/02/wpa-wireless-just-works-in-ubuntu-704.html

Judging from the comments in the link below, the results seem to depend upon the hardware you use, which is not completely surprising.

http://www.michaellarabel.com/?k=blog&i=129

For one user, "ITS FAR from easy" to get wpa to work. Which make me feel better, given how much trouble I am having getting it to work on a few machines.

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