Comments on: Enable WPA Wireless access point in Ubuntu Linux

By: Mihai Stancu

Mihai Stancu — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:47:14 +0000

Thank you very much for this, i’ve had this problem since forever.

Now i’m ready to crossover to GNU/Linux without the Windows safety net.

By: candi

candi — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:17:39 +0000

im haveing a problem with this command

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
I keep geting an error saying its not found i cant save the file without this command can you help me please

By: Elliot

Elliot — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:54:35 +0000

Thanks a lot for this – for whatever reason, restarting dbus also fixed my monitor resolution issue I was having. Much nicer using the wizard than writing the wpa supplicant config file from scratch (and remembering how to do it!)

By: Aashish Dattani

Aashish Dattani — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:55:34 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot! worked for me on Jaunty. I wasted hours trying to figure this out.

By: JR

JR — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:20:22 +0000

Dell Vostro A90 resolved my issue with not being able to connect to my wireless network. The Vostro A90 (mini reincarnated) kept changing my passwork WPA phrase. No matter what I did it kept changing it to a long string of characters. I have to type the password but at least now I can connect. I don’t know what bug fix will remove this particular problem but this is at least a nice workaround to the issue. Dell Mini or Dell Vostro A90.

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:26:38 +0000

i have a Ralink RT2500 wireless card btw

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:26:03 +0000

when you say only “lo” entries in sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces, is it right if i have the following in that file?
“auto lo”
“iface lo inet loopback”

and after i go though the whole process i get an error saying
“failed to initialize HAL” and i cant move my cursor
can anyone help?

By: help

help — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:27:27 +0000

i deleted everything in the file where i was supposed to comment “lo”
and saved it on accident. damn it. how do i fix this and is it fixable?

By: stephen dee

stephen dee — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:48:22 +0000

BTW: That’s a Dell Inspiron 3500, 256MB Ram. The wifi card is an SMCWCB-G (802.11g). Works great when it’s working.

By: stephen dee

stephen dee — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:46:47 +0000

Installed Ubuntu 8.10. After I figured out what the Network Manager is, I was able to get WPA-PSK working. I then ran an update (yes, silly me). After that, I crapped out and can’t get wifi a connection again no matter what.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:00:46 +0000

Hey,

I cannot go pass the step where I have to alter “/etc/default/wpasupplicant”

I write: touch /etc/default/wpasupplicant

but permission is denied. Then, I write: su gary (my username) and write in my password.

When I try to write the command: touch /etc/default/wpasupplicant
I am still denied permission!

Any help would be appreciated

By: GABAT

GABAT — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:49:09 +0000

I have DELL MINI 9 WITH UBUNTU:
I CONNECT TO WIRELESS AT HOME.
i CAN NOT CONNECT TO WIRELEE AT LIBRARY
ANY HELP?
THANKS

By: ekr

ekr — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:57:17 +0000

This was helpful for my setup too: Ubuntu 8.10.
The file /etc/network/interfaces must be empty
except for the loopback. Otherwise gnome network
manager cannot connect, gives not debug/output,
removes/adds interfaces seemingly randomly, etc.
Thanks!

By: joe camel

joe camel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:40:00 +0000

what does he mean by commenting out

By: joe camel

joe camel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:57:50 +0000

hey where do you run the command
how do you get there

By: Rocky

Rocky — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:50:18 +0000

I’m having trouble getting the network connection to work consistently. It works just fine with WEP or unsecured networks, but the computer doesn’t seem to pass the information needed for WPA everytime. I think it is somehow related to not having permission to use the keyring… any ideas?

I have gotten it to work by deleteing and recreating the network profile… this bring up the keyring access prompt.

Also, repeating the “sudo touch” phase and rebooting has worked.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:16:35 +0000

@Jyesj

In Ubuntu and Kubuntu type:

sudo gedit

In Xubuntu type:

sudo mousepad

This gives you a blank text file… just type ENABLED=0 and browse to ect folder, then default folder, double click on the default to open it, then save.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:41:00 +0000

It works! But Woody is right.

1 Make sure you get the right driver running, i.e. blacklist a wrong one, e.g. orinoco if you need hostap.
2 Have this file /etc/default/wpasupplicant with the mentioned content: ENABLED=0

Reboot.

By: Larry Callison

Larry Callison — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:22:27 +0000

I am running ubuntu 8.10 on a Tecra A2 with a 2200BG wireless card using the IPW2200 driver. I can connect to the wireless using WPA-PSK, but I can’t get on the network. It seems that I can transmit but can’t receive any packets. They all error out. In network tools, it shows transmitted packet with now errors, but the received packets shows lots of errors. I can’t ping anything on the network and can’t get on the internet. On my router, I can see the laptop on the dhcp client list when running dhcp. It gets an ip address just fine.

By: Woody

Woody — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:01:06 +0000

This is a perfect example of why Linux is having a slow uptake, too many bugs to get it up and running in a smooth way. Until this sort of crap is worked out once and for all Linux will go the way of DOS.