Wireless

Network Manager

Network Manager has been redesigned for Intrepid Ibex and now works quite well. You should not require other network managers, and, in fact, more than one network manager can cause conflicts.

It can be accessed from the tray icon.
Manual configuration from the command-line

3 steps for WEP:

sudo iwconfig eth[N] essid [SSID]

sudo iwconfig eth[N] key restricted s:[PASSWORD]

sudo dhclient

WPA is more complicated:

su

mkdir /etc/wpa_supplicant

cd /etc/wpa_supplicant

echo network = { > wpa_supplicant.conf

echo ssid="SSID" >> wpa_supplicant.conf

echo key_mgmt=WPA-PSK >> wpa_supplicant.conf

echo psk="PRESHAREDKEY" >> wpa_supplicant.conf

echo } >> wpa_supplicant.conf

cd /etc/network

vim interfaces

Now add after "auto eth[N] ..." & "iface eth[N] .." (press 'i'):

wpa-driver wext # or whatever driver your network card needs

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Save the file ('Esc', ':x', 'Enter') and restart your system.