[Cialug] Wireless Kubuntu

[David Champion]

Also wouldn't hurt to get familiar with the "iwconfig" command. It lets 
you manually set the essid and encryption keys. i.e.:

iwconfig eth2 essid myaccesspoint

If you just type:

iwconfig <interface>

... it will echo out all of the current settings being used.

If used several gui tools for wifi config - they're getting better now, 
but they were generally pretty crappy.

Mandriva has finally gotten theirs to use the roaming profiles correctly 
(in the drakroam tool). Before it would remember all of your info for 
the AP's, but would get a parameter error when it tried to bring up the 
interface. The Mandriva wireless config tool is pretty nice - for 
instance it will automatically config a native or ndiswrapper wifi card, 
pretty much transparently to the user.

-dc

Tony Bibbs wrote:
> If you are using Edgy Eft, you can safely throw all the GUI wireless 
> tools in the trash.  While they all seem to detect networks, etc, they 
> can't "get it right" by letting you define connection settings (WEP, 
> etc) and actually *remember* it the next time you try connecting.
> 
> I had to manually touch the wireless config to get things working right.
> 
> --Tony
> 
> Todd Walton wrote:
>> I just installed Kubuntu.  For the first time ever, I have a Linux
>> that recognizes my wireless card.  Unfortunately, I can't connect to
>> my wireless network.
>>
>> I'm using Wireless Assistant, which I guess is a KDE app.  It lists my
>> router's ESSID.  When I click on it it asks me to set up my
>> connection.  I never had to do that in Windows, but whatever.  It asks
>> me whether I want "Automatic (DHCP)" or "Manual", and then whether I
>> have "Open System" or "Shared Key" for the WEP mode, and what is my
>> hex key.  I know my hex key, and I'm pretty sure I want Automatic.
>> But no matter which WEP mode I choose, it won't connect.  It says:
>>
>> wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
>> wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
>> Listening on LPF/ath0/00:11:50:d6:06:44
>> Sending on LPF/ath0/00:11:50:d6:06:44
>> Sending on Socket/fallback
>> DHCPRELEASE on ath0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67
>> CONNECTION FAILED.
>>
>> This is a fresh install of Kubuntu 6.10.  My partner fresh installed
>> Ubuntu 6.10 tonight on her laptop, and the wireless utility in that
>> connected right up with no problems.  She's using a Belkin wireless
>> PCMCIA card, I'm using a Belkin wireless PCI card, we're both
>> connecting to the same Belkin wireless router.
>>
>> What's going wrong?
>>
>> -todd
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