[network-admin] Cannot enable WPA in UI

Thanks for your bug report. Your issue was alread reported upstream:
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161376 - I'll make a comment over there.

There have been some changes to the way wpa_supplicant is invoked in Debian and by proxy, Ubuntu. It's gotten a whole lot simpler.

Instead of dealing with /etc/default/wpasupplicant and /etc/wpasupplicant.conf, and starting wpa_supplicant from init.d, now all we need to do is edit /etc/network/interfaces as follows:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-driver yourdriver
        wpa-ssid MyCoolNetwork
        wpa-psk 685bac1393023d......

As far as I can tell this is a Debian-specific change, so it won't get spread to all distros. Perhaps this will make it easier to get some support into the g-s-t for WPA.

Gabe,

When did these changes make it into Debian? Do you know if they are available in edgy?

Thanks,
Mike

It does work with nm-applet in Feisty (beta) but still not in network-admin.

Just a note:
Sometimes I get connected to the access point of the neighbors, which might be illegal in some countries? (not that it should ever be a problem :P)

Apparently fixed.

Does it work for everybody (maybe in Gutsy)?

That should be fixed in gutsy, closing, feel free to reopen if that's still not working for you though

Thanks a lot: I don't know if you installed it specifically on my machine, but one day it asked me for the key, I gave it, and it has worked marvelously ever since.

I had left ubuntu and tried other systems, some very good. Yet ubuntu and your help was the first to address the problem of my machine with my particular set-up, and solve it. I see various .iso downloads on distrowatch, that I would like to try, but not at the expense of losing what I have.

Thanks again. Some day I will send some money, but I have other needs now.

J. Lynch

Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote: That should be fixed in gutsy, closing, feel free to reopen if that's
still not working for you though

** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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Just to clarify :), that was probably network-manager, the icon on the right top corner in the panel which support WPA for a long time now.

Sebastien is speaking about network-admin, reachable via System -> Administration -> Network which now supports WPA, which is good news :)

I hope I can clairfy: I am in an apartment complex, that has evidently a DOS program that looks for a Key: "tbl@thisnumber" to enable only users in the complex to access WIFI. If you want them, I can provide the exact sequence and terminology used. I remember it is a WPA PSK key.

I can't say whether it was Network Manager that initiated the final process that asked me for my "code," or another routine. If you feel it is important I could save my data and rebuild this part of my hard disk with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
(see below for more details).

This is what I think changed things for the better:

I tried to install a Belkin, USB WIFI antenna for greater range, following instructions from a file downloaded, which I can probably find (I save everything).
I couldn't get the Feisty OS to see the Belkin (Ralink) antenna, but it was after
this that a boot up sequence asked me for the correct key and booted into the Atheros radio chip.

The system was Feisty Fawn 7.04 (DVD) from issue 80, July 2007 of Linux Magazine,

As I said above, the software probably was in the system on the DVD, as I was unable to access the internet using my WIFI setup. Again, my guess is that when I tried to install the Belkin "Railink" chip, I moved something or deleted something in the Wifi boot up script that caused it to see the Atheros chip in the correct sequence.

My guess is that the newer program or routine, as you may call it, had not been used in this case, since I could not download any software until my machine could access the WIFI and internet.

So, if you are not confused by now, I tried.

Regards,

J. Lynch

Martin Jürgens <email address hidden> wrote: Just to clarify :), that was probably network-manager, the icon on the
right top corner in the panel which support WPA for a long time now.

Sebastien is speaking about network-admin, reachable via System ->
Administration -> Network which now supports WPA, which is good news :)

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