i just installed ubuntu and well, no wifi connection, it sees my wifi card, it sees the drivers, its now seeing the wireless as unassociated rather than radio off uhm. my wifi card in my laptop is a pro/wireless2200BG, it says broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 multicast=yes wireless=unassociated when i do iwconfig it sees my router and has the right essid i really donno whats wrong, ive tryed following the troubleshooting on ubuntus site is there a program i need or somthing? any help would be great i can get other info if needed, but as im new please list the command for it
Have you entered the encryption key right? (you need to put a "s:" in front of it if it's an ASCII key). Did you do a "ipconfig eth1 (or wlan or whatever) up"?
ive not tryed connecting through command line, my router uses wpa and i hve no idea how to use the wpa_supplicant especialy as there is no wpa_supplicant.conf file. i gave in and changed my router to wep security and it works now now i can get down to messing around
WPA is a very new addition... And that shows... With my limited Ubuntu experience, I've found that it messes around with the config files and their normal location... But maybe there's a ubuntu guide out there to get WPA going...
there was a guide about using that nsidwrapper thingy but i tryed to follow it and i didnt have access to some file to lock it or some rubbish. only reason i have security is to stop leechers so wether it be wep or wpa it doesnt matter. it was giving me a major headache till about 1am last night so i just gave up in the end
If you just want to stop casual leechers stealing your bandwidth, enable MAC address filtering on your router. Or even turn off DHCP, manually assign an IP and use a non-standard range like 192.168.43.x. Or leave DHCP on and set the range to allow only one IP address to be assigned (to you) and you should be fine. None of these methods should be mistaken for any decent level of security but they should make leechers think its not worth the hassle...
