[ale] Ubuntu woes

[KingBahamut]

Id assume Jim

apt-get install network-manager-gnome

if you havent already.


On 8/7/06, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 18:18 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > What's the state of Ubuntu wireless networking (WAP, not WEP, and things
> > like TKIP+AES, etc.)?
>
>         Ok...  I'm not a real big Ubuntu pilot, so others may have a
> better
> answer than this...
>
>         Ubuntu has wpa_supplicant installed.  That supports WPA and
> WPA2.  They
> also make reference to wpa_supplicant and wpa_client in their write-ups
> for their profession certification, so it would seem it's not just
> dumped on the CD and not integrated in some manner.  So my conclusion is
> that Ubuntu must support WPA, it's just a matter of figuring out how.
> That being said, I haven't run wpa_supplicant on Ubuntu, only on Fedora
> Core.  I have also noticed that some drivers require you to specify the
> ESSID of the access point or wpa_supplicant fails to find them (I
> believe this is due to limited scan capabilities in some individual card
> drivers).  The man page on wpa_supplicant can give you more information
> on the types of cards it supports.
>
> > I just installed Ubuntu on a new laptop (T60p) and it installed
> > wonderfully well... up until I wanted to use networking.   I've also
> > noticed that wired network can only be configured manually, dhclient
> > fails to pull an IP.
>
>         That is very definitely not correct.  I've got Ubuntu running in a
> VMware virtual machine and dhclient has no problem drawing down an IP
> address.  Does dhclient run when you bring up the interface?  I haven't
> had any trouble with this at all, but it may be driver/card dependent.
>
> > The Ubuntu forums are full of similar issues/complaints, but no
> > solutions.  Am I a fool to think that networking should work out of the
> > box with an up to date Linux distro? ;-)
>
>         It does work out of the box, in my experience.  Maybe it has
> something
> to do with your specific setup?  I'm not familiar with that laptop
> model.  Are we talking built-in wireless and/or wired?  Are these PCMCIA
> cards?  Are the cards getting recognized and drivers loaded?
> PARTICULARLY with wireless cards, you could easily be having a driver
> problem.  Is this 802.11b?  802.11g?  Native drivers (the native bcm43xx
> drivers are, errr, problematically)?  Ndiswrapper?
>
> > -Jim P.
>
>         BTW...  I see it's now up on the ALE site, but I will be speaking
> on
> the current state of Wireless Security at the ALE Central meeting this
> Thursday on the Emory Campus.  That will be the same talk I'm delivering
> this evening at the Atlanta Unix Users Group at the HP building near
> Perimeter Mall.
>
>         Regards,
>         Mike
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