Comments on: Enable WPA Wireless access point in Ubuntu

By: stuzzi

stuzzi — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:54:48 +0000

tenfishsticks, i am also having the same problem as you, its soo frustrating, i must of tried a dozen times… anyone help

By: tenfishsticks

tenfishsticks — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:47:18 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial. I’ve made some great headway with this when I couldn’t find any other information online!

I have a problem, though. After all the steps, I don’t see the WPA option unless I create a network in Network manager with the SSID of my wireless. If I follow the tutorial steps and try to connect with the router, I don’t see the WPA option. I can’t connect to the network and my password doesn’t save.

I am using a Toshiba with a Wi-Fi card that should be able to use WPA. I’m also running Ibex.

RedBob, could you explain what you did to get this to work? Any help would be awesome!

By: Paradox

Paradox — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:11:52 +0000

Simply great !! works like a charme

By: Peg

Peg — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:37:53 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:30:00 +0000

I tried it and nothing changed. Nothing happened. I still have full reception for my home network, but am unable to connect.

Can anyone help??

By: Branden

Branden — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:20 +0000

Hello. I had my wireless working and all, but just the other day I accidentally deleted the panel that the network manager icon was on. The other network icons are not the same. now i don’t know how to connect to the Internet. Any help would be appreciated. thanks Branden

By: Redbob

Redbob — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:25:00 +0000

Oosh!! It worked when I configured it using Networkmanager, by DBUS & HAL.

By: Redbob

Redbob — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:20:32 +0000

Well, my notebook is a Toshiba Tecra A4. When I installed Hardy (8.04) couldn’t config neither wired interface (Marvell) nor wireless (IPW2200BG). With Intrepid Ibex (8.10) I got wired interface, but I still have problems to connect WPA wireless connection. My iw interface detects 4 access points, but gnome-network-manager didn’t give me a WPA option.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:41:39 +0000

Stuck the same as Fmpfmpf, and several others: all went well but then no wireless option in Network Manager and no wireless strength icon on the menubar. :/

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:28:11 +0000

Man… this worked like a charm! Thanks bro!

By: fmpfmpf

fmpfmpf — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:25:37 +0000

i did everything as stated.

Once you login back in to your machine you need to left-click the network manager icon in Gnome and select your wireless network It should prompts for password, type, etc and It will ask you to choose a password for your new “keyring”.

mine doesnt prompt for anything
and i dont see the blur staircase looking icon.

pls help

By: F4jr

F4jr — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:03:05 +0000

I have everything, but when I want to connect I can’t obtain an IP address with the DHCP.
Someone know why ?

Thanks

By: erick

erick — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:24:26 +0000

Wow,

finally it works! Thank you my dear!

My laptop is an averatec 1020.

Cheers, erick

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:53:53 +0000

Derek,

No, I’m not using multiple APs. So I don’t think it is the same problem. Thanks.

Geoff

By: Exxon Valdez

Exxon Valdez — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:28:37 +0000

Can you quote the excerpt of /etc/network/interfaces ? I’m trying to bring up a text-only box.

By: Eliot

Eliot — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:13:04 +0000

I just had to leave a message to say THANKYOU!!!
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get WPA working for ages!
You’re a champion!

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:31:01 +0000

Geoff;

No answers, but similar problems. I can see two APs on my network - one, at about 200m is a poor signal, but is the master router; the other is a repeater in WDS mode within 10m. network-manager seems to encourage my NIC to roam from the close/powerful AP to the further/weak AP anytime it sees the signal from the base router, which naturally results in frequent loss of signal. Do you have multiple APs?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:41:30 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for this - it’s great. Before I read this, I couldn’t get wireless networking to work using Ubuntu atall. Now it’s temporamental: refuses to connect several times running but then successfully connects. Successful connections sometimes disconnect spontaneously. Do you have any ideas?

I’m using: Ubuntu 7.04; Dell Inspiron 2200 with Dell/Broadcom Wireless 1370 Mini-PCI Card Rev4.2; Netgear D834G router with WPA-PSK encryption; the name of the network is broadcast.

Many thanks!

Geoff

By: adrienne

adrienne — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:42:26 +0000

Holy smoke! I wish I hadn’t wasted so much time reading other people’s tutorials/suggestions, although I learned a lot. I now have the wireless working perfectly and Yay, I can move on to other issues. Thanks so much for your help!!

By: OttifantSir

OttifantSir — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:12:08 +0000

Following your instructions, I am now writing this in Windows. I had NO network after editing interfaces and making wpasupplicant.

Ubuntu locked down, and I had to go into recovery mode to delete wpasupplicant.

This was just a genuine PITA for me.