OK, I believe this is important enough to make another topic for it.
Everyone says "install knetworkmanager" but that has never worked for me.
Sure, the GUI knetworkmanager provides shows WPA2 security and all the required features, but it doesn't even create a wpa_supplicant.conf file that I could find, so I don know how on earth it tried to get wifi running (Feisty on fresh PC with Netgear wifi).
On my laptop with ipw2200 I manually set up wpa_supplicant to use WPA2 and it works perfectly, but I had to kill knetworkmanager.
Wifi seems to be the Achilles' heel of linux - these days it seems that if you don't have wifi, you can't really do much.
Everyone says "install knetworkmanager" but that has never worked for me.
Sure, the GUI knetworkmanager provides shows WPA2 security and all the required features, but it doesn't even create a wpa_supplicant.conf file that I could find, so I don know how on earth it tried to get wifi running (Feisty on fresh PC with Netgear wifi).
On my laptop with ipw2200 I manually set up wpa_supplicant to use WPA2 and it works perfectly, but I had to kill knetworkmanager.
Wifi seems to be the Achilles' heel of linux - these days it seems that if you don't have wifi, you can't really do much.