[Cialug] WPA configuration

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:53 -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> Does anyone here have wireless with WPA authentication working well? If 
> so, how did you get it working? I'm running Debian Testing on a 
> MacBook. I have gotten Linux to identify the wireless device, now i 
> just need to get the WPA stuff set up correctly.
> 
> I would like to regularly connect to 2 different wireless networks, one 
> at home and one at work. I've tried looking up instructions for how to 
> connect to a WPA-secured network, but it seems that everyone has a 
> different way of doing it which all appear to be incompatible and i'm 
> not sure how to discern what method is best. For now i wouldn't mind 
> having to run a command to get the computer to switch networks, but 
> eventually i'll want to automate that somehow so that transitioning 
> from one network to another is as seamless as it is when running OS X.

I use NetworkManager on my laptop to manage my wireless connections.  I
use WPA at home and it works great.  If the driver for your wireless
adapter properly supports the latest wireless extensions it should work
well too.

Jeff

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