[wplug] Wi-Fi with linux using WPA2

[Richard Farina]

Richard Farina wrote:
> 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.
>
just in case you didn't figure it out, I meant wpa_supplicant ;-)

> -Rick Farina
>>
>> Cameron
>>
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