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Procedure to enable WPA Wireless in Ubuntu
To update the source list run the following command
sudo apt-get
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome network-manager
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
Comment out everything other than “lo” entries in that file and save the file
Create a file called /etc/default/wpasupplicant, add entry ENABLED=0 and save the file
sudo touch /etc/default/wpasupplicant
Reboot your system or use the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
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”.
After enterring all the details my wireless network was connected and working fine you can see in the follwoing screen
My wireless network also detected available wireless access point around my home you can see this in the following screen
If you want to connect an existing wireless point you can see the following popup box asking for details of wireless network
If you want to create a new wireless network you can see the following screen with the available options and after entering all the details you need to click on connect
Possible Error and Solution
If you see the following error
The NetworkManager applet could not find some required resources. It cannot continue.
Solution
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/
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October 29th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Thank you this worked great.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:20 am
hi. this was a lifesaver. HOURS wasted on other stuff. question…. how can i configure my ip address to remain static? i use port forwarding, and cant have a new one every time i reboot or switch to wired.
October 30th, 2006 at 8:04 am
If you want to configure static ip address in ubuntu you need to follow this procedure
open /etc/network/interfaces file and enter your ip address details save the file and restart networking services
sudo /etc/network/interfaces
I am giving here an example once you edit the above file you need to enter the details in the following way
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.3.90
gateway 192.168.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.3.0
In the above details you can replace address as your ip address,gateway,netmask and network address and save your file.
Now you need to restart your networking services using the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
after restarting you can check your new ip address using the following command
ifconfig
hope this helps
October 31st, 2006 at 3:39 am
I don’t see “WPA Personal” under the Wireless Security menu. I have tried many different guides, and followed them exactly. I was hoping this would be the last. Is there a specific reason I am not seeing “WPA Personal.”
November 2nd, 2006 at 6:11 am
You rock! Spent too much time searching and trying other solutions to get my wifi working. After finding this site was up in less than 3 mins! Thanks a million!
My setup: Edgy Eft (6.10), Centrino (ipw3945)
November 2nd, 2006 at 10:31 pm
@ David
I’m in the same position. After a reboot, only ‘None’ and the WEP options are available.
Setup: Edgy Eft, Netgear WG311v2 (TI ACX111)
November 4th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Thanks for that. I’d been trying to get my a connection to my wireless router when using WPA-PSK for hours, but this worked straigt away.
November 7th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Thank you!! This worked GREAT and got me connected in seconds with my sad old Linksys WPC54G PCI card. Tried a hundred other things, manual hacking of conf files, this got WPA going right away using DHCP, WPA-PSK to my router.
November 7th, 2006 at 6:24 am
Oh yeah, full setup is: Edgy (6.10), Linksys WPC54G card, D-Link DI634M Router, all running in a Dell Latitude C610. And the card is also happily picking up a dozen other WAPs from my neighbors
November 7th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
This guide looks quite promising, although I have been having problems so far with network manager in that when I install it, clear down all but the first two lines in /etc/network/interfaces and reboot with my ralink 2400 pcmcia card in the slot, the power light on the card comes on, but when I click on network manager, all i get is a message saying that “no network devices have been found” Any ideas?
November 11th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Steeley: This is because your open-source driver (acx100) doesn’t support WPA. Not yet anyway. NetworkManager sees this driver and disables any options that aren’t supported; pretty nifty. To use WPA with this card, unfortunately, you’ll have to use a windows driver and ndiswrapper.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:09 am
I am a total newbie w/ Linux, but your instructions got me up and running. Thank you so much. If you do would like some feedback, I would recomened putting in how to create the etc/default/wpasupplicant file. It took me a while to figure out (based on my permisions, but I finally got it.
THANKS,
Matt
November 12th, 2006 at 5:35 am
I followed your instruction, however I still couldn’t get WPA to work. I was able to get my laptop to talk to the router with no security or WEP. However I’ve had no luck with WPA. Seems like everyone else who have posted have had success. What else could I try?
November 12th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Wait, just to make sure. In the wpasupplicant file, I only need to have:
ENABLED=0
Is that correct?
November 12th, 2006 at 10:36 am
yes only that line should be there
November 12th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
That’s what I had. But WPA is not working. What else can I try? To give you more info, I have Atheros 5212 based chip for my wireless card.
November 14th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Can I change MTU size if using networkmanager?
With everything commented out in /etc/network/interfaces, is there any way to change MTU for the wireless interface? It seems to have defaulted to 1500 (looking at it with ifconfig).
November 15th, 2006 at 12:32 am
Hi - thanks for the comprehensive instructions. Unfortunately, I’m a real newbie, and can’t even get NetworkManager to run
. I’ve tried installing it through apt-get AND Synaptic. It says the current version is already loaded, but a simple nm-applet gets no response from the screen, no icon. Am I doing something stupid here? (Sony Vaio PCG-18XG, 256, 16GB, ubuntu 6.10, DWL-G630 working on home wlan). I’d really appreciate your help. Thanks again.
November 15th, 2006 at 4:33 am
Do any of you guys know how to setup wireless for Fedora?
I have a wireless card and it reads it cause it shows it in the Network Configuration Hardware tab as a Configure status, but when i go to add new wireless device, is not listed.
any reason for this?
i’m a newbie as well.
November 15th, 2006 at 4:41 am
This article is amazing. When NetworkManager says “Create New Wireless Network”, is it referring to a creating an access point? If so, does anyone have any more info on creating an access point utilizing current Wireless card. Thanks
November 15th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Nice! Wanted to use WPA Personal since Breezy..
I’ve got another question. I’ve tried to connect to some of my friends pc’s (when we come together for an evening or so to share files etc..) but their using Adhoc (since no one has and Access Point) and Linux (Ubuntu and Kubuntu) doesn’t seem to want to connect to an Adhoc network (or PC) .. Btw, I’m using Edgy Eft.
November 15th, 2006 at 5:43 am
I have a Netgear WG511. It uses the native prism54 driver. So far unencrypted wireless and WEP seem to work, but WPA does not see to be supported as it’s not an option in the network manager. Should I use the ndiswrapper with Netgear’s drivers?
November 15th, 2006 at 9:55 am
@brent
If you want to create a wireless access point you need configure in your router then you can access from your laptop or anyother place.If you have braded wireless router check their documentation how to create wireless access point
November 15th, 2006 at 9:58 am
@Adam
yes you need to use ndiswrapper with Netgear’s drivers
November 15th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Thank you, searched for this a long time!!
Will try it this weekend.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Why do I comment out everything except “lo” interfaces? I still want my ethernet to work, and I’m not sure that this won’t make it not load, so why?
November 15th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
so many thanks to clear this out
November 15th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
I did not do it your way, I added a wpa_supplicant.conf file and put the relevant network information in that file. And I still have issues connecting to wpa hidden AP’s. I also have to delete .gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/APNAME then try and connect which sometimes works. adding ap_scan=2 sometimes helps as well.
Any thoughts?
November 15th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Would this also work with KDE (using Knetworkmanager)?
November 16th, 2006 at 12:27 am
I can’t get wpasupplicant to install. I get the error: “Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but 0.60-6ubuntu8 is to be installed”
Any ideas?
November 17th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Hi!!
Great you are a genius!! I just followed your instructions and it worked instantly.
Cheers
November 17th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Hello,
Fantastic! After days of struggling with this issue on my Acer Travelmate 2312LMI with an Atheros Wi-Fi card, you’re sollution made it work pico bello, including WAP and AES on my Linksys WRT54GS router. I’m glad I didn’t have to start using ndiswrapper and some W$ driver.
Thank you very very much.
PS: To Roy: Yes, I use this solution on Kubuntu with KDE and KNetworkmanager!
November 17th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Whoops. My PS was of course ment for Rob.
November 18th, 2006 at 3:22 am
Hi, I tried this a few weeks ago and it worked perfectly when I was at my apt, but since I changed locations I tried to set up a different ssid, however, even if I put in the correct ssid and key (or select the ssid from the list), it won’t connect. It’ll go through the animation for a few seconds, then it sometimes shows the signal bars, and then reverts to no connection. Any ideas?
November 18th, 2006 at 5:26 am
I figured out what the problem was. wpasupplicant had been updated to the trevino/3v1n0 version which caused it to break.
November 21st, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Okkkkk, I have some questions to make. First of all I can’t install the network-manager-gnome. It says that it couldn’t locate or something like that. I tried with the ubuntu CD but still the same problem. What’s wrong with that? And the newbie-questions: how do I comment out these lines? By placing # in the beggining? And in the end I leave only a few lines uncommented(as far as I remember)? How do I create a file? With sudo touch? I have the 6.06 ubuntu and a WGT511T Netgear wireless card(it’s on a HP Compaq nc6320 laptop). It’s been one week that I’m trying lots of things and nothing works. I don’t know much from linux, the how to for wpa on ubuntu help is complicated and so I need help. Please answer if you can. Thanks in advance
November 24th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
This worked great! Much better than the other guides! Thanks!!! BTW Edgy Eft System
November 25th, 2006 at 5:57 am
I followed the instructions exactly. I am able to detect networks now but I can’t connect with any of them. I can input the key but nothing happens. It keeps prompting me for the network key after a few seconds of trying to connect. I am running a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop with Broadcom wireless card and Edgy Eft. What am I missing?
November 25th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
It worked for me as well, Ubuntu6.10/T60. The wireless connection is establishing but I cannot browse anysite.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Is ist not necessary to create a /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file and fill it with network=… info?
November 30th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
I really want to use WPA, simply because it provides better security than WEP. However, as I read from Mutt that the open source driver acx100 does not support WPA. Does anyone know if there is any ongoing work to fix/enhance this driver to support WPA. If so, more details would be appreciated.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:53 am
To Rob with the KDE question. It works perfectly with knetworkmanager. Simply change the “gedit” command to “kwrite”. It worked perfectly for me. I had been using wlassistant, and it could only connect via WEP. I am soooo happy with this method. I have been wanting to migrate over to Linux permanently for awhile, and the problems with wireless have held me back. NO MORE!!!!
December 1st, 2006 at 2:59 am
Yannis, you have to make sure you have the proper repositories enabled.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:18 pm
I also use Edgy with Centrino (ipw3945), my card is a Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (Broadcom) on an HP nx9420 laptop, getting Wifi to work was a piece of cake with this setup, but getting WPA to work is not happening and let me tell you I have tried EVERYTHING! including this, in-fact I spent nearly a whole week on it. I need to configure PSK-AES encryption (if anyone can help), there must be a way… Intel lists AES as supported by the card, and on the same spec laptop on XP it took about a minute to configure.
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Thanks appreciated worked flawlessly with edgy eft and a linksys wmp55ag pci adapter
December 4th, 2006 at 5:18 am
Dude, you are the mother-grabbin’ MAN!! I worked all day long trying get this thing going with all of the tutorials from the ubuntu forums to no avail. When I read this, I was skeptical at first (because I’d tried for so long already) but I figured I’d give it a shot. Worked perfectly!! Dell Inspiron 8500, WPC54G v1.2 Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. Please make this available on the Ubuntu Forums if it isn’t already. Thanks.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:39 am
Brother, is it possible to make this persistent after a reboot? If so, how?
December 5th, 2006 at 12:42 am
Hi!
Finally a guide that works, and it works great. Thank You very much.
p.s. You should include the thing on the static ip in the guide too.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
i’m having troubles with network-manager-gnome. “sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome network-manager” returns Couldn’t find package network-manager-gnome. PLEASE HELP!!
December 6th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Bonzer burger, An excellent guide to an excellent little application.
December 6th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
This worked really well, but then I lost my wired connection. Any way to have both? (I’m new obviously). Curious as to why it’s not in the distro in the first place… Thanks again
December 7th, 2006 at 3:54 am
I am very new to Linux. If u don’t mind can u please tell me how to create the /etc/default/wpasupplicant file
December 7th, 2006 at 6:58 am
open your terminal or command prompt run the follolwing command
touch /etc/default/wpasupplicant
December 8th, 2006 at 1:11 am
I have created the wpasupplicant file. But when i am editing it, it is telling i don’t have permissions. But with the same user name, i am doing every thing.(Wireless in Ubuntu 6.10)
December 8th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
WPA is still not working. There is a log or a way to connect via command line to get some feedback? Right now the net is found, I put the wpa key and after a few seconds the nmapplet says “no network connection”.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:17 am
It works fine for my Ubuntu 6.06/T60. Thank you very much!
December 13th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Thanks for the post.
–
Interestingly (very expectedly), I’m experiencing the same issues as a couple of persons here.
1: I’ve never been able to get this card to successfully authenticate to my wireless network, with WPA enabled, using Ubuntu.
2: I’ve read and tested the scores of other tutorials and directions out there, to no avail.
3: I’ve tried this card in several different machines running Ubuntu, from Breezy up to Eft… no luck.
4. This (appears to be) is the closest I’ve come so far to seeing this card, recognized properly/ fully by Ubuntu (I’m currently running: Edgy Eft, on a Sony Vaio PCG-GR370.
Currently, the Network Manager shows as expected, I enter my wireless network details, connection attempt is made, but no go, it apparently just times out.
Of note: something that may also be causing my problems is the fact that I’m using two Airport base stations: an Airport Express and an Airport Extreme, coupled in WDS mode.
But I’m pretty sure on previous tries, disabling those features and just using one or the other of the base stations, didn’t yeild any better results.
Any one with any suggestions, feel free to let me know.
Cheers.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:19 am
WONDERFUL! I have been trying to get my wireless card to work on Ubuntu for a good two weeks. I followed the directions and now have a working wireless card on linux
I thank you, and my laptop thanks you.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
December 18th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Hi,
I have been trying configure wireless on my laptop using Ubuntu Edgy for the past one week but just couldn’t get it working. I did not install Ubuntu on my laptop as its running out of space, so I am running the Live CD. Wonder how can I get it the wireless working ? Thanks for your advice.
December 19th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
I install network manager and this icon is no where to be found at all. I have full connection to my wireless internet with full bars but it just says “network not configured” and I can’t access anything. So annoying - I’m about to dump linux and go back to windows. I have had linux for 6 months, one day had to connect to a specific network, so I typed in its name and password. Then I was done with the network so I erased that and went back to my dorm room and now all my old internet connections no longer work. And no one replies to any help request about it anymore. So frustrating
December 21st, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Excellent! Brilliant! Superb! Yet I use dapper, this tutorial was a lifesaver after hours of f**king around other distros.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Ben, I’m having the same problem (but I’m not giving up on Linux…)
I installed Network Manager and have rebooted multiple times, but I am not seeing the bars icon like is shown on this site. I am running Edgy Eft, is that the problem? Any help would be appreciated…
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Actually, I found out my problem. If you have a wired connection, the network manager icon looks like the standard two computer monitors, pretty much just like the other network icon. I was able to click it, choose my wireless network, and continue from there.
December 23rd, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Good morning folks;
I have tried everthing on the recommendations and I still do not have my wirless connecting.
Here is my set up.
Asus laptop with bulit in Intel Wireless Pro 2200BG.
Linksys WRT54G with WPA-TKIP enabled
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft).
The OS see the device via LSHW and it is on logical eth1
I can not get the Network Manager to even allow me to select WPA. The options I get are Hex and Plain Ascii.
I have got all the latest WPA packages. I have created a WPASupplicant file.conf file with the recommended entries.
I have of course hardwire access but would like to be unchained from that.
Anyone got any more recomendations besides goin gback to XP?
Regards,
Michael
December 26th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
I tried this and it worked great! That is, until it came time to connect to the network. I cannot connect! it asks for the passkey, and it will only let me use the WEP 128 bit Passkey encryption. How do i use WPA-Personal? i have a linksys WPC45g card, it detects the network. But it cant connect. all help is appreciated.
December 26th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
I’m a totally newbie, so, for everyone overthere, thinks I had to learn before:
To comment out something you need to add this sign “#” in front of the line you want to comment. Example:
# This line I want to comment.
Other thing I learned was to find the NetworkManager, in order to launch the NetworkManager you have to open a terminal and write this down: nm-applet
You will see a little computer in the top of the right corner of the menu. You will also need to add this command “nm-applet” in System> Preferences> Sessions> Startup Program in order to launch the NetworkManager on the Startup.
What I didn’t figure it out yet is how to start my computer and connect to my wireless network automatically without having to enter my password everytime I log in.
December 27th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
This is working great for me. The only minor annoyance is that it takes longer to boot up because it has to time out trying to connect at boot-up time (before I log in and enter my keyring password). Is there any way to make it give up faster trying to connect via dhcp at start-up time (it is obviously going to fail until after I log in and enter my keyring password)?
Thanks again for the great instructions.
December 28th, 2006 at 4:46 am
CTRL+C
December 28th, 2006 at 9:03 am
This is the first instruction that works!! I’ve looked for that over six month and I tried different other instructions. But this one is great!! In about 10 minutes my IBM T23 was wlan-online! Thank you for this information.
Die erste Beschreibung, die wirklich problemlos funktioniert! Habe lange danach gesucht und vieles ausprobiert. Mit dieser hier war ich innerhalb von 10 Minuten im Netz.
December 28th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
My router wasn’t broadcasting its SSID and it wasn’t able to connect, but once I started broadcasting again it worked fine.
December 30th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Thank You very much Admin!!
I now have wireless working using an intel 3945ABG card on a dell inspiron 6400 with edgy. Seems like without all those entries in the interfaces file and wpasupplicant files for eth0 eth1 etc it allows network manager to do its thing.
Previously I tried following the wiki ubuntu edgy starter guide and it mentions other networks and the keyring with network manager, but it didnt include the details you had, and it didnt work.
This solution needs to be made more widely known.
It will save a lot of people a lot of trouble.
Regards
Nick
December 31st, 2006 at 12:22 am
Admin, uou are the balls! As a Linux newbie, I was getting frustrated with the difficulty in trying to get WPA recognized - this worked like a charm the first time. Like others have commented, other methods have not worked. I’m running a Toshiba M105-S3004 with Intel 3945ABG card (this is a very common card) and Ubuntu 6.10.
January 5th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Thank you very much, this is the ideal solution and it worked like a charm on my girlfriends Toshiba laptop.
Thanks again!
January 5th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Thanks for the outstanding information. It worked like a charm. Is there a way to set it up so that I don’t have to enter to wpa key each time?
January 6th, 2007 at 12:47 am
wonder if this will work with WPA and WPA2 and with TKIP and AES encryption.
What about wifi networks that require you a certificate (such as campus networks)?
January 8th, 2007 at 2:31 am
i have kubuntu 6.10 and cannot connect using wifi open access. i used the wifi assistant.i m newbie in gnu/linux
January 9th, 2007 at 3:49 am
I’m struggling!
I am running edgy on an ibm x24 thinkpad and trying to connect with a RaLink RT2500 card. I have followed the guide on a fresh install but it still won’t let me select WPA under the security tab though it detects the network.
Could someone please help?
what exactly should be in the /etc/network/interfaces file?
do I need to manually set up a wpa_supplicant.conf file?
Regards
January 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
This all seems to work, except I am unable to click on the connect button, I see the connections I clcik on them I put in my wpa details, but the connect button, is unclickable!!!!!! Whats going on? No one else here seems to have had this problem, is it something simple. I have the same problem with KWiFimanager, I can see them but I am unable to connect to them, and in wifi-radar sama again, I can see but I cant touch (in wifi-radar it pretends to connect, but doesnt. I dont understand and I cant find any infomation any where to help me out
January 9th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Does anyone know how to modify the options that get called for wpa_supplicant? Using the nm-applet calls it with -dd -g [global_interface]. The problem is that this interface uses (I think) ipw2200. When I try to connect to the wireless network at school, it fails. So I disable wireless in the nm-applet, then manually do sudo wpa_supplicant -D wext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. The key difference is that I can only get a connection here using wext. Anybody got a clue how to fix this?
January 11th, 2007 at 3:19 am
I am on a dell inspiron 8600 with an internal network card, and this tutorial seemed to be what I needed to get wpa working right. But I can’t even get to the network manager, once it’s installed. Any help? Fresh install of Ubuntu Edgy, by the way.
January 11th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Thank you - thanks to these clear instructions I didn’t have to waste any time at all.
January 12th, 2007 at 5:23 am
My netnwork manager is telling me “Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem:
SIOCGIFFLAGS error: No such device”
January 12th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Nevermind… I’m just an idiot. You’re awesome… this worked like a charm!!
January 12th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
As with many of the other comments… I lost so much time trying to set this up, and now it works… THANKS A LOT!
January 15th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Thanks for the wonderful instructions! I was able to get to a point where I can ping google with DLINK DWL-G510 with WPA (Ubuntu 6.10). However, firefox still cannot connect to the internet. I went to the Networking tool that came with Ubuntu 6.10 and re-activated my network there and I briefly got the internet via firefox, but then it stopped working gradually (slower.. slower… then none). Any idea what’s going on (seems like there’s some sort of conflict)?
Thanks!
January 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Network Manager doesn’t want me to connect to any wireless networks. I’m running Dapper on a Toshiba TE2100, with a D-Link DWL-G650+. Using the native Network setting tools, I can connect to my home network, whether I use WEP ascii, hex, passkey, or no security (haven’t bothered trying WPA yet). When I switch to Network Manager (with all the appropriate settings), it recognises the network, and I can try to connect, but it won’t get there. With no security, it stalls on “Atempting to join the wireless network ‘xyz’”. With WEP enabled, I get a “Waiting for the Network Key for the wireless network ‘xyz’”, and not much more. If at any time I switch back to the original network settings setup, all is fine and usable.
Anyone had any luck with this scenario, or have any possible suggestions?
January 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Hi,
Two days ago I installed Linux Ubuntu on my Dell Laptop.
Everything is going all right except the Wireless connection.
I can see the wireless card I activate it but it cannot detect any network.
I just read your comment and I thank you for it.
As I just start with Linux (I start from scratch !), could you explain me how do I have to do to start to update the source list run as you mention here ?
Does it also work with the last version of Linux Ubuntu ?
Thanks A Lot
January 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Hey,
Thanks for this- I installed Edgy on Wednesday - had WEP working out of the box, but WPA was a hassle!! Searched EVERYWHERE for answers, and ended up screwing the system so much that the wireless card disappeared.
I found your instructions this morning, and reinstalled Edgy. You should definitely forward these to Ubuntu, somehow.
I was up and running with WPA in minutes!!!
Thanks again!
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Hey.
I run Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) exclusively on a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. I discovered that my hardware (USB Wireless Adapter) (http://www.flashcards.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=66&products_id=296), which apparently supports WPA, but after using parts of the info you’ve provided I am happily up and running using WEP. Perhaps I was using the wrong driver… Anywho, network-manager-gnome & network-manager were not required in the end. Thanks for the info you provided. It was most helpful. Cheers.
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:00 am
I have only one problem with this. On my desktop computer I have Canyon USB stick with zd1211 chip. First time I installed it with wep encription and everything worked well. But now suddenly my wireless device changed name into eth1 (before wlan0) and network manager don’t recognize wireless network adapter. I need it because I use WAP-AES protection on router. Thank you very much for any reply.
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Many thx. Now it works with WPA2 (before only WPA)
Intel Pro Wireless Lan 2100 3B mini pci adapter and kubuntu 6.10
But how can I safe my key?
January 25th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Great you got WPA working. I followed your instruction to the letter but I seem to have a very stupid problem: I can’t find the “network-manager icon”. Where should this icon be located?
January 25th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
icon located next to time display in system panel
January 25th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
I did follow step by step this and i was able to get my wireless manager working. It did actually find my home netrwork but i wasn’t able to create WEB key between my laptop and basestation.
So I did playing around and trying to get my WEB key working. I change settings and tryed different setup from UI. I also bootup system couple times and after this my wireless network didn’t work anymore at all. I found out that reason behind this was that some module in this ubuntu 6.10 is rewriting /etc/internet/interfaces file and added there extra lines for eth1 (wlan in mycase) after removing that line and leaving only lo setup there + restarting my comp everything seem to be working well with my T43.
Many thanks for creator for this how to!
January 27th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Hi
I use two notebooks at home both of which I connect to the internet via a Linksys wireless router. Upon booting, neither notebook connects but the icon (the blue bar graph) shows that I’m connected. To connect, I must disconnect then reconnect by clicking on Network Manager and selecting my wireless network. After this I connect without a problem. I’m using edgyd with gnome network manager.
Why does it not connect upon booting and what must I do to enable this? Is there a way to connect without having to use a password each time?
Thanks
orian
Thanks
orian
January 29th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
WOW!!! I hafta do all of this incomprehensible stuff to get on my home wireless network? Oh, well, back to Windows.
Someday, Linux may be ready for the real world.
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
This worked without a hitch. I’ve spent hours looking for something this simple. Ubuntu now replaces what was one a Window XP installation and with this wireless fix i’m well on my way to now having to buy Vista. Thanks.
February 4th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Followed this how-to. My Sony VAIO VGN-FS630/W now works on my Linksys speedbooster router….FINALLY.
February 4th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Hello. I used this to scan for available networks for my USB Wifi stick:
“iwlist rausb0 scan”
Thanks for the great guide!
February 4th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
My gratitude cannot be understated! This is the most user-friendly, simple and straightforward guide to setting up WPA2 wireless access that I’ve come across! Furthermore, it not only got me connected but pointing me to network-manager makes switching networks extremely easy. I think I’m about as excited at this moment as I would be if the Redskins were to (finally) make it to the Super Bowl.
February 6th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Yes! Finally got my Latitude D600 Ubuntucized with wireless that works. Thanks for posting this.
February 7th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
it is works finally.
Many Thanks,
February 7th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Do you need to comment (#) all the lines except the first two that have lo entries? I have done this and when i reboot i can only get a wired connection working with the network manager, no wireless. Any ideas?
thanks,
George
February 9th, 2007 at 9:11 am
I connected fine but firefox wasn’t working until undertaking the following suggestion :
Firefox specific
In the address bar type about:config.
Find this line network.dns.disableIPv6 and double click on it to change the value to true.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
As a former W$ user Ive waited for months for someone to finally get Ubuntu to use WPA. I now have Ubuntu 6.10 loaded and got it running WPA thanks to the above tutorial but after shutting down the system, the next time I log on, Network Mgr would have its icon on the top right but No wireless as if WPA disappeared.Since Im a linux newbie can anyone shed some light on this situation? BTW inputing the above sequence would result in the same condition.Thanks
February 10th, 2007 at 6:36 am
My old Dell INSPIRON 7500 is out of mothballs and running with WPA enabled thanks to this site. I spent 2 days trying to get it running with no luck. If I run into any related problems I will be sure to visit this site BEFORE I spend a week searching for answers on google.
Thanks Admin!
February 10th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Perfekt! Worked fine. I’ve try’ed and not managed to get it right, until now. Thank you!
February 11th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Thanks, this is just what I was looking for and works perfect! Now is only Beryl will start working!
February 11th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Hi,
Belkin 54g router with WPA-PSK,
Siemens/Fujitsu Lifebook C1110 with 2200BG,
Ubuntu 6.06, fresh with updates,
Followed the instructions to the letter, I get the passphrase dialog, then animation starts, and times out, asking once more. After that, fallback to wired.
It’s not clear to me, should I try the firmware thing or not?
thanks,M.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I fought for 3 days on this and your instructions worked like a charm. Thank you very much for this how-to.
I did not use it for WPA but i saw it had all the encryptions available so i used it for WEP and I worked beautifully for me. Thanks E.
February 12th, 2007 at 7:04 am
why the hell does this not work out of the box? i thought it’s linux for human beings….
you can’t require a normal joe to go through all this….
February 12th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
thanks man! works like a charm!
February 13th, 2007 at 12:39 am
This worked on Ubuntu Edgy, on Compaq 5000, Netgear WPN311 PCI Adapter, attached via WPA-PSK to Netgear WPN824v2 Router. Thanks for the timesavings! You win a prize!
February 13th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Add to the above post, assistance via this link: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/12131
February 13th, 2007 at 2:59 am
wow, i’ve been using linux for a while now and have never been able to get ubuntu to connect to my wireless router until now. i had basically given up and just connected it to the ethernet cord but thats all changed today. i did exaclty what you said and it worked like a charm. you are truely my hero.
February 18th, 2007 at 2:40 am
NOTE: If you get stuck on step three where you cannot install the network-manager-gnome, try running this command first.
“sudo apt-get update”
Then run “sudo apt-get install network-mang….blah blah blah”
February 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
had a prob for a bit but got it working in the end. It didnt seem to work if the network name was hidden, but when it was revealed on the router settings it worked!
February 19th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Le gaspe, working Linux wireless?!…
Thanks to the help of my good friend Mereo, I’ve gotten my wireless card working spotlessly in Ubuntu Linux. Now to see if I can get it working in another distribution - I really don’t like Ubuntu all that much, even if Foresight also uses Gnome
…
February 19th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I’m stuck on step three. I’ve got this message: Couldn’t find package network-manager-gnome
And I’ve already tried what Gabriel says at comment 116.
Please help me!
February 21st, 2007 at 6:17 am
wow!!!!! I’ve tried about 100 other guides, involving editing all the config files and such. I commented out everything other than “lo” entries in that file, like you said to do, and rebooted the system. Everything is working magically now. (i forgot to make the /etc/default/wpasupplicant file cause i rebooted too quickly, but it still works). Incredible! i wish everything was this easy
February 24th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Thank you so much! I’ve tried to get this working for a week. This did the trick, no problem what so ever!
February 24th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Does not work with the wireless Sitecom router WL-143
No wireless networks will be detected.
The only device which works with this router is my HP iPAQ.
February 24th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Could someone explain what is meant by: “Comment out everything other than “lo” entries in that file and save the file”
Does it mean “erase” or “delete”. I’m stuck waching a nice text editing programme with the following lines:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid bunburry
wireless-key s://dwaszlafrokiCezaregoiMariusza=+pranie
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
…….and have absolutely no idea what next.
Could anyone help?
February 28th, 2007 at 12:40 am
My goal is to connect to a WPA secured network. I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on an IBM Thinkpad T40p. Built-in wireless is disabled in BIOS, I use a D-Link DWL-G650M PCMCIA card instead. The card works fine using the XP drivers under Linuxant. I have no problems connecting to an open network after manually configuring the ESSID and IP info. To get WPA support, I installed NM by : “sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome”. The command completed successfully. Then I edited the “interfaces” commenting out everything except the “Io” statements. However, even after several reboots, still no sign of NM.
Synaptic tells me that network-manager and network-manager-gnome are installed, v 0.6.3.2ubuntu6. The nm-applet is listed in the Start-up Programs list.
When “killall NetworkManager && NetworkManager –no-daemon” (as suggested in another thread)
root_at_Frodo:/home/rer# killall NetworkManager && NetworkManager –no-daemon
NetworkManager: starting…
NetworkManager: nm_dbus_init (): nm_dbus_init (): could not acquire hte NetworkManager service as it is already taken (ret-3). Is the daemon already running?
NetworkManager: [1172619287.397157] main (): nm_dbus_init () failed, exiting. Either dbus is not running, or NetworkManager dbus security policy was not loaded.
NetworkManager: traceback:
NetworkManager: NetworkManager(main+0×47f) [0×80681af]
NetworkManager: /lib/tls/1686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7c2f8cc]:
NetworkManager: [117261947.586695] nm_print_open_socks (): Open Socket List Done.
NetworkManager: NetworkManager [0×80530a1]
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
Any idea what could prevent NM from running, what am I missing?
March 1st, 2007 at 8:55 pm
After plowing through all entries on ubuntuforums.org I thought I’d never get my ipw3945 wireless running. But this worked like a charm, tnx!
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Excellent. I had given up on ever getting WPA working with ipw3945 on a Dell laptop using Ubuntu 6.10. And now it’s working perfectly
March 4th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Thanks a lot, for this easy to use instructions. I wonder why all this guys searching and writing tons of code didn’t know that.
I was searching 1 month now and nothing work for me and WPA Encryption Protocol.
But now with your instructions everything just fine. Just one thing, that maybe concerns someone is that you have to change your AP channel to a discoverable channel from your wireless card. I also have Vista and had the channel 13 (i live in Greece) and didn’t show anything in my AP Lists in ubuntu network manager. When i change in channel 11 everything went perfect.
I am very very new in Linux, and i try everything by searching in forums. Your are in my Best list now….
Thanks a lot.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
This worked a treat, thanks heaps mate!
Compaq Presario 2200 with 2200BG Intel Wireless adapter
Running Ubuntu 6.06
Much appreciated.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
This was seamless!!!My windows dual boot partition has inched closer to the trash bin…!!!
Thanks….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:27 am
@Admin,
Thank you very much for posting your How To.
Network Manager, Network Manager Gnome and wpa-supplicant were already installed on my notebook PC (must have been by default, as I didn’t do it) and the Network Manager icon was already showing on the toolbar alongside the Network Monitor icon. So I just followed your instructions from “sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces” onwards.
I have a Linksys WPC54G (EU) v7.1 notebook adapter and it worked first time using your procedure. I am now surfing the Net wirelessly using Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS ubuntu and WPA-Personal with PSK and TKIP. Previously I was accessing the Net by using a Belkin wired Ethernet card in the notebook. I just had to unplug the Ethernet cable for wireless network access to start-up.
Thanks again!
March 8th, 2007 at 1:52 am
You ROCK. Thanks for the strong contribution.
…Community.
March 8th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
So close!! I’m running Kubuntu 6.10 on a HP nx6325. I use WPA. I ran this guide and now my network is showing up in knetworkmanager, but when connecting it fails at 28%. Does anybody have any idea how to solve this problem?
March 8th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Gold, Jerry.
Thanks
March 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
thanks =)
March 10th, 2007 at 10:30 am
COMMAND LINE WPA?
Hey GUI is great and I use it everyday - but does anyone have a “how to’ that shows you how to use WPA via the command line (i.e. wpa_cli) Using a GUI is great but using the command line is makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! =)
March 10th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Finally, finally - after days of trying everything on Ubuntu sites I have done it with your help - you are a absolute total star !!!
Thank you so much !
March 12th, 2007 at 5:34 am
As per the WPA setting on Kubuntu, select Personal WPA [unless your’re on Enterprise WPA] and carefully type-in the paraphrase. Had mine successfully set-up and connected! Thanks a bunch!
March 13th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Hey, very awesome, thank you very much. I’ve tried this before on my Toshiba M40x, and I ran into problems, but after trying it again it seems to work just as you described. I must have done something wrong by accident the first time around.
March 13th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Excellent HOWTO! Easy to follow. I got my old Toshiba Satellite 2405 working right away with a Netgear WG511T and WPA on Edgy.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Hello all,
I am a kubundu user. (edgy)
I a new at the area and I cannot see how I can configure my Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.
lspci shows that the card is found, but iwconfig shows
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wlassistant is failing with error “No usable wireless devices found”.
The steps you have proposed did not work.
Any ideas?
Thanks
March 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I spent hours and hours chasing my tail getting WPA to work. I had installed the network manager also. Just thanks, massive thanks. All seems well now.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Worked perfectly. Got me up and running WPA in minutes. I have 1 small problem. It seems about every 3-5 minutes the wireless disconnects for a few seconds. Its like the connection timeouts and has to reconnect. Any suggestions???
March 21st, 2007 at 11:35 pm
This is great, but i have a problem recibing an ip direction with dhcp
I’ve a network OPEN-WEP
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Iv got a problem in that i can connect sucessfuly to the next flats network but i can get a connection to my own, network manager isnt showing and connections just a grey’d out “Wired Network”. Any ideas?
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:54 am
In the past I remember that I was trying to connect on my WPA protected Wi-Fi netowrk with no success.
Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu v6.06 LTS, today I found this great site with my first search in Google.
I followed your guide (step-by-step) and I connected to my WPA network in 5 minutes!
This tutorial is a lifesaver (it’s already a bookmark)!!!
p.s. thanks for your effort.
March 25th, 2007 at 5:46 am
I previously had this going well using these excellent instructions. But recently my router died (Linksys WAG54G v2) and I had it replaced. After setting up the new router with the same SSID, but with a slightly different encryption key, I could not get it working, nor could I figure out how to change the key.
Turns out that I forgot that my password was stored in my ‘Keyring’. The solution was to go into Keyring Manager (System/Administration/Key Ring Manager) and delete the existing passphrase for my old wireless network AP. Then, next time I tried to connect wirellessly, I was prompted for the new security configuration and soon everything worked again!
FWIW, I am using Asus laptop with built in Intel Wireless Pro 2200BG.
Linksys WAG54G v3 with WPA/PSK-TKIP enabled under Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft).
March 29th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Have installed as above and can see a choice of networks including my own.I click on mine and I’m asked for a passphrase.The cipher suite on my router says “TKIP+AES(WPA/WPA2) I know my router password but should i use WPA Personal or WPA Personal? TKIP or AES-CCMP? I think I’ve tried all combinations with no sucess.
March 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Thought I’d try to connect again so turned on laptop and network manager only reports my wired connection. Just like before i done the above typing .Redone the above rebooted but it is still not there.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:30 am
I have been trying to get my wireless working for days on end,
this seems to work for most ppl so I`d like to give it a try but I dont really understand the instructions, I opened up
a terminal and typed
sudo apt-get
then I got asked for a passwork, what pwd? Im so confused! Are thses commands supposed to be in a file? what do i comment out?
Isn`t there any place I cant get help that is aimed a someone who
has absoloutly no idea what the hell they are doing, ie. first time linux users?
March 31st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Hi. I have a fairly new install (3 weeks) of Ubuntu 6.10 with the latest updates. I was using a borrowed Broadcom based card
using ndiswrapper. Last week I installed a Netgear WG511T using the MadWiFi drivers from the restricted modules 2.6.17-11-generic.
I have no problem connecting with WEP, but cannot get it to work with WPA. I found this page and followed the instructions, but
unfortunately I still can’t get a WPA connection. It recognizes that the router is running WPA personal. I enter the correct
passphrase, see the Network Manager trying to connect, then I’m prompted for the passphrase again. I noticed that I do not have
a wpa_supplicant.conf in /etc. Could this be the problem? I’m a n00b at Linux, but have no fear of the command line or configuration
files so if anyone can point me in the right direction I’d appreciate it. Thanks.
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:11 am
Thanks, great info. Tried multiple other ways of configuring my connection and your walk through was not only the easiest but the most successful. Thanks again!
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
thanks from me too. without this i was off on a wild goose chase! worked flawlessly with ubuntu 6.10 and looks very similar to what they have in their beta 7.04; so looks like it will be in the next release by default which is good news!
April 4th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Thanks for the post, it worked fine, but i have a problem……
i accidentally removed the network manager icon from the Panel and i don’t know how to get it back
can anyone tell me how to get it back????????????????
April 4th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Too bad getting WiFi to work with Ubuntu is such a flipping hassle. That’s the deal-breaker right there. My days of hassling commands and “special” case stuff are long-over. (In fact I think they went out the door just about the time the 486DX 33 was no longer the hottest thing going. Wake me up when Linux works with WiFi.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Enable WPA Wireless access point in Ubuntu Linux…
Most of Ubuntu users are looking for this simple tutorial how to enable WPA Wireless access point.By default Ubuntu doesn’t have this feature….
April 6th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Great stuff! Ubuntu newbie since 2 days, tried a lot of other How-to’s but only this one does the trick without any problem.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:04 am
AMAZING. Been struggling this for months and was just about to rebuild the system. You should get a medal!!
April 9th, 2007 at 7:25 am
This worked like a charm for me using Feisty Herd5 on a Inspiron 1501 laptop. I already had a working connecting with WEP encryption, but I struggled with network applet and WPA. Thanks for the pointers.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I have a problem getting my WG511T v3 installed on my laptop (dell inspiron 2500) with ubuntu 6.10. I do not have Network Manager and when i try to install from Add/Remove.. it asks me to download files from the internet.. i dont have an internet connection so how am i supposed to go around this? Any help would be greatly appritiated,
Thanks,
Adam
April 14th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Adam,
I am typing this reply on an HP laptop with a busted motherboard where both wired and wireless networking is gone. I plugged my cable modem to the laptop by USB. Yeah, look at your cable modem, if you are lucky it has a USB printer style port. As a matter of fact, I am running the 7.04 live cd, and installing 7.04 ubuntu right now. I’m hoping that will help me get my zd1211 based card to work. grrrrr.
April 15th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I did the whole thing it still doesnt work. It keeps coming back to “Wired network”. No wireless icon to be seen so far.
I have an hp laptop nx7010 with dapper drake.
No comment.
April 16th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
recognizes the access point, but not connecting!!!!!!!
April 16th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Yes!!
I fully expected failure here, after many other attempts, and when I didn’t see the blue Icon signal strength
bars, it did not look good. Having sped read, as we do, instead of “left-click the network manager icon in Gnome”
as I should have, I went through the System> Administration > Networking menu which WILL NOT HELP YOU.
It will show the same old WEP/ASCII optoions only.
As soon as I did the correct sequence, as is working properly.
Dell inspiron 6000 with a PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (Intel)
Kudos to admin
Michael
April 18th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Same problem as Kamal “Wired network” but no more, It can’t find any wireless acces point.
nm-tool, just tell me that I’ve got a eth0 Device not active, It must tell me something about my wlan0, isn’t it?
Any help?
Using Ubuntu Dapper.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Still having a problem after doing this. The card is now trying to find wireless networks, but still not showing in network utilities. I am just trying to connect at an internet cafe, with no password needed.
I can’t figure out how to start gnome, I am running ubuntu 6.1
April 19th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Great tutorial!
Running edgy Eft, everything is OK except I cannot see the WPA option.
Looks like my DWL-G510 drivers are not supporting this feature.
Has anybody any suggestion?
Thanks,
April 20th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Problem running console command -> “sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome network-manager”
No package here by that name and not in http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/gnome/ too, how do i download that package, and how do I install it…
…please help me on getting this package, I installed 6.06 dapper (desktop) and there are no package by that name on the CD.
PLEASE, the missing of the package is a problem that many people have posted, whith only one typed anwser
(116, but it didn’t solved for me, thanks anyway)
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
UBUNTU 7.4
Wireless Card: Belkin F5D7010
Sees the Wireless SSID, But when entering the passphrase there is no WPA in the Wireless Security option, Only WEP etc.
If I select connect to other wireless network it gives option for WPA, But does not connect.
For a major release of a OS this is not great….
April 24th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Suggestion….
Can the commands above to enable WPA be put into a little nice script file, that will automatically run the above commands? Comments can be added line by line to assist new people to Ubuntu. Thank you.
April 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I have a few problems, but I could fix them. Take care about this comments:
1) Network manager only works with DHCP. I tried with some static IP tutorial, but it didn’t work.
2) Just write this 2 lines in /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Delete the other ones.
3) Restart your computer if you don’t see available wifi networks.
May it’s not enough with sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
I HOPE THIS WILL HELP, IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THIS.
THANK YOU ADMIN FOR THIS GREAT TUTORIAL !!!
IT WAS A BIG STEP IN MY WIFI CONFIGURATION
I’m using Ubuntu Edgy and Linksys WRT54G
May 4th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Thumbs up for this guide!
Took me a minute or two, though, to reckon that I weren’t to press the standard Ubuntu wireless connection icon (the one with the green bar).
May 7th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
thankx man! this guide helped alot! many hours of work saved (or could have been
May 11th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
You’re my men. I was getting nuts about this issue.
Thx
filters 2 cents
May 12th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I am running Kubuntu on laptop Acer Aspire. My wirless network manager can see all wireless networks around. However it can not connect to any of them (open and WEP). Are there any suggestions?
Thank you
May 12th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I think I’m with the guy who said “wake me up when Linux works with WiFi”. There’s too many drivers that don’t work with WPA. I’m not using WEP.
May 15th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Thank you for explaining how to do this so clearly. Help from people like you is what makes using linux so great (and easy) for those of us who are just learning.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Really Great!!
I’m finally writing this over wlan after hours and hours of hopeless attempts.
Thanks a lot
June 16th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Thank you so much! Every other solution on the web was bogus. Question, what does ENABLED=0 exactly do? Thanks again!
June 17th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Meddling around with WICD, System>Admin>Networking, ndiswrapper, etc etc for 2 weeks; no joy. Could get WEP working but what good is that? Uninstalled Wicd; followed this guide exactly; working! This is the only procedure that got that pesky Broadcom chipset under control!
caveats:
1. sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart did not work for me; restarting the system did.
2. Follow the steps EXACTLY; you MUST left-click the Network Manager icon to begin setup of your wireless network.
3. Check with your router on what type of encryption you’re using - match WPA, WPA2 and then TKIP or AES, otherwise you won’t be connecting. At first, check SHOW PASSWORD to confirm you haven’t made a typo; you can hide it later once your connection is confirmed.
Toshiba Satellite A-207 has a built-in wireless-b card listed as ETH1, which only does WEP/B. I had to disable this interface in System>Administration>Networking to let Network Manager use the Linksys WPC54G pcmcia card.
Guide rating: 4 Flippers!
June 17th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
As with the others, this got me going. Very straightforward. However, I can now get on unsecured networks, but my WPA2-PSK AES net continues to say “Waiting for password” after it is entered and eventually fails.
This seems pretty strange since all the “hard” parts seem to be in good order. Heard of this one before?
Kind regards, and thanks,
Dave
June 18th, 2007 at 12:47 am
hi when i try to connect to any wirless wouter it ask for wpa security code tht i dont no i no only my house wpa security but not othr ppl so can i not use a internt without putting a WPA security code thnkzzzz
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
If I click on the network-manager icon I cannot see the wireless netowork only wired. What am I doing wrong?
June 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
@ bandess
the main point is to uncomment all adapters in /etc/network/interfaces. on the other hand this post helped me! thanks
July 13th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
This looks like it could workd, just one question … HTF do I come up with nm-applet gui if I don’t use gnome?
July 30th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I am trying to install WiFi in my Laptop (Acer Aspire 5585WXMi) and it uses Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Network as the WLan device. When I switch on my Wlan it detects it but in my Network Admin for the WLan in the password type only 2 options are shown - WEP Key (hexadecimal) and WEP key (ascii). I do not find any WPA Personal or any other option mentioned above in the image. I followed all the steps mentioned above but still dont get them.
Any idea why?
I am using Ubuntu Fiesta
Thanks in advance,
Imran
August 7th, 2007 at 12:20 am
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
PS does this site replace
August 7th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Thanks for this - this was the answer to getting my broadcom wireless card enabled on our wpa wireless network using Ubuntu feisty. The one small issue that I’m having has been raised above in other replies to this post: is there a way to set the network manager so that we don’t have to enter the keyring password every time we login?
Thanks.
Sam
August 31st, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Tell me, how does Linux expect to compete with Windows if you have to go through all this stuff when installing a program. Why should new users to Linux have to code commands, get with it and compete. I’ve tried five different Linux programs in the last six years and I end up feeling like I’ve been taken for a ride. Maaybe I will go to the Mac.
Jim
September 9th, 2007 at 4:38 am
This worked perfectly…Thanks for putting together such a fine tutorial!!! Simply put…you have saved 100’s or possibly 1000’s many, many hours….
September 9th, 2007 at 4:53 am
…”Tell me, how does Linux expect to compete with Windows if you have to go through all this stuff when installing a program. Why should new users to Linux have to code commands, get with it and compete. I’ve tried five different Linux programs in the last six years and I end up feeling like I’ve been taken for a ride. Maaybe I will go to the Mac.”…
Well, I never really expect Linux to compete with Windows, but people and companies that are willing to learn will benefit in the long run. Sure, it is a pain in the rump at times, but this is only during the initial install. Once you figure out one or 2 problems, you should be golden…I am running a laptop and PC and they both run so much smoother than with Windows. Since Ubuntu is going to stick around for quite some time, I will put my effort into learning as much as possible. Ironically enough, I am a software project manager, and yes, windows does some things better but there are alternatives in Ubuntu…I will say our applications created on a Linux platform really do run 15-20% faster and with less crashes and issues…Sorry, for going on and on, but people really torque me when they talk about Linux competing with Windows…In a nutshell, you can make Linux work for you, but it depends on how many licks you are willing to give in order to get to the center of a tootsie pop…
BTW…WONDERFUL TUTORIAL…
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Thank you! This worked perfectly for my Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty.
September 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Thanks! Easy to follow howto. My IBM T41 running Ubuntu 7.04 can now connect to my WPA/WPA2-Wifi-Network. Works under GNOME and KDE
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:14 am
YOU HAVE SAVED MY LIFE! Thank you for sharing this information. I have tried many methods and apps to no avail. I have wasted many hours and days trying to get my wpa wireless to work for me. I have been up and down several threads and forums and have tried everything. Until I came across this thread, and it work flawlessly. YOur knowledge is greatly appreciated and you saved me from hours more of fustration. You got a friend in New Jersey.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Dear Admin,
Thanks a lot for your wonderful write-up and it is good to see the great feedback that you have received.
I am a total stranger to Linux, and I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on Paralles VM. Everything is working smoothly except for not being able to connect wirelessly. I have followed the instructions here carefully, but I seem to get stuck at where I have to “comment” out everything other than “lo”.Can you please explain this in a lay man’s language, and if possible capture the “commented” text file and post it here?. Also how do I create the file ?etc/default/wpasupplicant, and then add the entry ENABLED=0 ?
Thanks a great deal.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Hi,
Many thanks for this very informative article. You’ve made my life much simple. Thanks again.
Worked perfectly on Fiesty.
Thanks,
srikanta
April 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am
There is some confusion about the phrase ‘comment out’ - I did not know what it meant, but joshrobinson in Ubuntu Forums kindly informed me that one should ̶