And this is Ubuntu power, written Sep 17, 2004, and concerning Uncategorized

My laptop is now feeling the power of the Ubuntu Linux preview release. There are a lot of cool guys hacking on this, including the bloke in the world for whom I have the most technical respect, and it’s niiiiiice. Dig that whole sepia brown vibe, man. Doesn’t seem to be any way to configure my wireless network’s passphrase, though, dammit.

Comments

Roberto

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?

sil

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 :)

Roberto

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.)

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.

Daniel Holmes

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. ;-)