[AuckLUG] Ubuntu 7.04, wireless card and WPA-PSK?

[Ken Lomax]

I have two other machines here using the network using wpa, although both
of those laptops are using m$.

I have tried installing wpasupplicant, but not sure how to activate it
properly. The docs seem to finish at the end of the make and do not go
into details about how to connect and use it. So i am not sure if it is in
the right place etc. Ubuntu did not install it (I dont think) when ubuntu
was installed, even though the card was in the machine and it is
recognised otherwise. THe card was working on the network before i changed
the security to WPA. The machines final location has a wpa network so i
need to get it to work

I am not very familiar with Ubuntu admin, more familiar with fedora, so
perhaps there is something i am missing

Cheers
Ken


> WPA-PSK (1 and 2) works under Ubuntu 7.04. In fact I'm typing this email
> on
> a lap top connected to just such a network now.
>
> So I guess my suggestion would be general trouble shooting stuff. Are
> other
> clients able to connect to the router while it is using WPA? Is the
> package
> wpasupplicant installed? That seems to be the only WPA related package
> that
> is installed on my system. I'm pretty sure it was installed by default
> though.
>
> Cheers
>
> Hansel
>
> On 8/17/07, Ken Lomax <ken at lomax.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a Asus P55-mx se mother board machine. I
>> have also installed a CNet cwp-854 pci wireless card in the machine.
>>
>> Ubuntu picks up the card and it worked fine until i set up WPA-PSK
>> security on my wireless access point. Ubuntu likes only WEP.
>>
>> I have downloaded the files from Ralink website and set up according to
>> the instructions.
>>
>> However I still cannot get WPA working.
>>
>> Ubuntu recognises my card as ra1 while the docs seem to think it should
>> be
>> recognised as ra0. THere is a pci wired network card in the machine
>> which
>> is recognised as eth0. Ubuntu does not work with the inbuilt network
>> interface.
>>
>> Any suggestions? This machine is destined for another location with a
>> WPA
>> wireless setup, so I need to make it work.
>>
>> THanks for any help
>>
>> Regards
>> Ken
>>
>>
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