On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:13 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Rob Malpass wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Totally fed up with Windows on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra so quite old)
> > I've just installed Jaunty. Very impressed with it booting properly,
> > picking up sound, screen res and even my wireless card. It can see
> > several wireless networks including my own but sadly it's fallen at the
> > final hurdle.
> >
> > My wireless lan uses WPA2 and there's no such option in network manager
> > - only wep and something called LEAP which I've never heard of. I've
> > tried them all and no surprise - no dice.. Sorry if this is a bit old
> > - but anyone know a workaround. My install disk was a LXF coverDVD so
> > presumably has the full package list on it.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rob
> >
>
> Have you toyed with wpa_supplicant?
>
> There appears to be a GUI for it at http://packages.ubunut.com/jaunty/wpagui
>
> If network-manager isn't working, you could try Wicd
> (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/), which I prefer.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
I'll second wicd as I use it as well, but as chris said you need
wpa_supplicant to be installed.
Thanks
Phillip
