[wplug] Wi-Fi with linux using WPA2

[Richard Farina]

Cameron McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>> From an older thread:
>
> On 5/16/06, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> NetworkManager[1] is your friend.  Also, it automatically notices what
>> wireless networks I'm connected to an picks the correct one.  It's even
>> smart enough to notice that when it sees my network it should connect to
>> that one over the one run by a neighbor called "CMU" (probably because
>> they couldn't get their laptop to work on multiple networks).
>>
>> On ubuntu: sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
>>            nm-applet
>>
>> It's delicious.
>>
>> --Patrick
>>
>> [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
>
> How does network manager work with WPA2 (personal) security?  I've
> googled and found some articles on getting WPA2 to work on linux, but
> it all seems kind of hackish.  Has anyone found smoother instructions
> / methods (especially with Ubuntu?)
>
> p.s. simplier the better, this isn't for me specifically.  I expected
> to find something dead simple (like wifi-radar or network-admin, but
> neither seems to be that simple).
hostapd is how to do WPA2.  Works for almost everything.

-Rick Farina
>
> Cameron
>
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