[ltp] Illogical Wireless Difficulty

Brad Langhorst linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:10:21 -0500


On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:20 +0000, Alfredo Matos wrote:
> > You're right, I tried almost every gui wifi tools but none of them
> > works.  I just followed what you said and it works.  In fact before I
> > also tried using commands instead of GUI, it turned out that my
> > missing the option "ap" was crucial, although I don't understand why.
> 
> I'm currently using Network Manager, that comes with Ubuntu Feisty
> (gnome 2.17.90), and it seems to works exceptionally good. Not sure it
> handles WPA though. But it's simple and straightforward, and does what
> you expect it to do.

it uses wpasupplicant to do the lifting... so it does support wpa.

I also use network manager and find it quite effective.
I used to use wpasupplicant directly but i switched due to the ease of
use

brad