[PLUG] Xubuntu Wireless Networking: Part II

[Bill Barry]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   Something is really screwy here. I replaced NetworkManager with wicd and
> rebooted. As a user I run 'wicd-client -n' and get a nice GTK GUI box
> showing all wireless APs around the neighborhood. Ours is at the top with
> 100% connectivity. However, trying to connect fails. According to
> wicd-client, it's a bad password, but it's the same one I use on my Dell to
> access the local AP.
>
>   The properties tab for our wireless AP lets me specify static IP address;
> whether I do makes no difference in connecting. It also has two choices for
> WAP2 security: password and preshared key. Again, it doesn't matter which I
> select, the entered shared kay won't work.
>
>
In WPA2 security the password takes two forms, the passphrase used to create
the key, and the key itself that is created. Are you giving it the correct
one? That's my limited knowledge guess. The problem is probably elsewhere.

Bill