as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

5 Responses to “Ubuntu power”

1. Isn’t it Debian based? Can’t you just edit /etc/network interfaces and add

   
   auto eth1
       iface eth1 inet dhcp
       wireless-essid essid
       wireless-mode managed
       wireless-key ###########
       wireless-channel 10
   
   

   there?

   Roberto
   -15901 seconds later

2. It’s Debian-based. But the “wireless-key” isn’t my passphrase, it’s what my passphrase encrypts to, unless they’ve fixed that recently. Certainly last time I put a Linux laptop on my wireless network, I had to run a little perl script to give me the encrypted version of my passphrase and add that encrypted version to interfaces. Since there is a nice little wireless card setup wizard applet thing in Gnome 2.8 (well, in Ubuntu, and I assume it comes from Gnome), it should have a box saying “passphrase for this network” and it doesn’t :)

   sil
   -9121 seconds later

3. Ah, I see. :-)

   (I had the same problem when connecting my Debian box to an Airport Extreme, with the difference that the Airport gives you the encrypted version of the passphrase.)

   Roberto
   30 minutes later

5. There is passphrase and passphrase. If you are using good old WEP (quite enough if you don’t have anything sensitive on your machine), then the key is in clear text.

   O.
   9 weeks later

6. I know it’s been a while, but just in case someone else comes along…this is a snap. Just use:

   wireless_key s:password

   Or so it says in the docs for the wireless-tools package. I don’t even remember my passphrases anymore. ;-)

   Daniel Holmes
   42 weeks later

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