[Bug 110325] Re: kubuntu cannot deal with wpa wireless link

[Paul Perkins]

** Summary changed:

- kubuntu upgrade to 7.04 broke wpa wireless link
+ kubuntu cannot deal with wpa wireless link

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: network-manager
+ Current (December 2007) status: the upgrade for 7.10 (Gutsy) left my
+ "put magic text in config files with my bare hands" (or vi) manual
+ configuration alone. But I still can't get KDE network stuff to even
+ admit that such a thing as WPA2 encryption exists. But after seeing some
+ of the trouble reports from folks who somehow did find a way to persuade
+ knetworkmanager to try to manage a WPA2 link, I guess maybe I'm lucky
+ I'm not one of them.
+ 
+ ---
  
  After much else failed, I got Edgy to use my wireless link using the
  instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834  The
  hardware driver was never an issue -- the problem is that Ubuntu's
  handling of WPA (wireless encryption) is, as far as I have ever seen,
  completely broken.
  
  Naturally, when I upgraded to 7.04, it broke the wireless link again. To
  fix it, so far, I think, I have deleted network-manager and it's evil
  kde front-end, and deleted the ####-ed lines from
  /etc/network/interfaces:
  
  auto eth1
  iface eth1 inet static
  address 192.168.2.25
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 192.168.2.0
  broadcast 192.168.2.255
  gateway 192.168.2.1
  dns-nameservers 192.168.2.1
  wpa-driver wext
  #### wpa-conf managed
  wpa-ssid CENSORED
  wpa-ap-scan 1
  wpa-proto RSN
  wpa-pairwise CCMP
  wpa-group CCMP
  wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
  wpa-psk CENSORED
  #### wireless-essid CENSORED
  #### wireless-key s:CENSORED
  
  I really wish Ubuntu would better test their releases with secured
  wireless networking.

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kubuntu cannot deal with wpa wireless link
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