Wifi with WPA is working

[ecowan]

After reading various posts, here, in Ubuntu forums and in several other places that Google threw up, I have wifi with WPA working on my laptop. Perhaps this note will help someone else.
I have a Eurocom 4200 laptop running hardy with a Netgear WG511 PCMCIA card which now connect to my home wifi network which is secured using WPA. This is my solution....

wpa_supplicant was installed with Kubuntu.

In /etc/network/interfaces I added
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iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168....
netmask 255.255.255....
broadcast 192.168.....
gateway 192.168....
dns-nameservers ..... ......
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0
====================

and I created /etc/wpa_supppplicant.conf by copying /usr/doc/wpasupplicant/examples/wpa_supplicant.conf.template and changing it to contain just
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ap_scan=1
network={
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
mode=0
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="ClearTextKey"
scan_ssid=1
ssid="Dorchester"
}
===========================

I now connect to my Netgear router whenever I boot or plug in my PCMCIA wifi card.

Of course you'll have to insert your own values for address, netmask, broadcast, dns-nameservers, gateway and psk=.

I discovered these values through a lot of trial and error. I'm not sure if they're optimal, but they do work for me. I'd appreciate any comments .

- Erny

[Snowhog]

Re: Wifi with WPA is working

Welcome! Thank you for posting your solution. I'm sure that others who may have a similar setup, or who are using a PCMCIA wireless card, will find this helpful.