WPA in Xubuntu 6.06
Finally got this to work, following these instructions.
One thing I had to do, and that I hadn’t seen elsewhere, was creating a file /etc/default/wpasupplicant and adding the line: ENABLED=0
A few problems remain
I still have to start nm-applet manually:
nm-applet &
even after I log out and log back in again.
After I enter the key (WEP or WPA), a terminal window shows:
** (nm-applet:6817): WARNING **: Error saving passphrase in keyring. Ret=2
So now I did:
sudo aptitude install gnome-keyring-manager
Will see wether that helps.
Update
I gave up (didn’t spend much time on) trying to get the gnome keyring to work in XFCE. Without it, network manager was a pain, because I kept having to re-enter the WPA or WEP key by hand. Turns out not just at reboot, but it disconnected every half hour or so and asked for the key. So I got rid of network manager again and got this to work using WPA Supplicant and Wifi-Radar:
Using Wifi-Radar and WPA Supplicant
Installed Wifi Radar and WPA Supplicant. Wifi-Radar is handy anyway for switching between wireless networks. Create a file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
I kept it really minimal, like this:
# WPA-PSK/TKIP
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="my_ssid"
psk="my_ascii_key"
}
Then, in Wifi-Radar, for that network, under “Use WPA”, I added the following line as driver:
wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iath0
Then just hit “connect” in Wifi-Radar.