WarStorm Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Hi guys, Linux newbie here. Running a server with Ubuntu server os. I've now moved to uni - got a router which works fine - I've now got a wireless card for my server and need to setup WPA to work with our router. When i run the commands: sudo wpa_supplicant -wlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf sudo dhclient wlan0 I can seem to connect to the internet and all seems good. However when i insert the following into my interfaces file: auto wlan0 iface eth1 inet static address:192.168.1.205 gateway:192.168.1.1 netmask:255.255.255.0 up wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Bw down killall wpa_supplicant I cant seem to ping google and dont seem to be connected. Looking at: sudo iwconfig wlan0 shows that the essid is blank. Any thoughts? This is driving me nuts! Cheers, greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budious Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I remember reading that some of the wireless chipset drivers are broken when enabling WPA/WPA2, and only support unencrypted wireless at the moment. You can try using ndiswrapper to enable a fully support Windows driver to provide WPA/WPA2 support in Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted October 13, 2008 MVC Share Posted October 13, 2008 why do you have the down in there? Do you mean post-down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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