Hi all

I have been using network-admin under gnome ubuntu dapper to connect to my home network wirelessly. I wanted to try out WPA on my homenetwork router and setup Network-Manager, Network-Manager-Gnome, and wpa-supplicant.

I use static ip on my computers but cant see anywhere in network manager to set a static ip address before it tries to connect to my router.

Thus when Network-Manager tries to connect to my router it just tries and tries and tries but I suppose because it isnt being given an ip address from my router it wont connect.

What programs are available for static ip address and wpa connection to wireless networks.

Thanks for any replies and help you can give me in regards to this problem.

Cheers Gimmee

This is a known problem right now with wireless/wired connections. You can read more about the coming solution for Feisty here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkRoaming

Hi there

Thanks heaps for that link. Thars exactly my problem I suppose i can set router as wep for the time being until this problem has been resolved.

cheers gimmee

You may find wifi-radar more to your liking. You will however have to remove all remaining bits of the gnome-network-manager to do so. This includes the manual deactivating of a startup daemon called something like nm-gnome.

nm-applet under System->Preferences->Sessions

Hi there

I have installed wifi-radar and tried it as static ip and no encryption and seems work great. Will try wep and also wpa and see how that goes. Looks promising.

One thing is when reading articles on this wpa wireless problem alot of people refer to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 file and to fill this in with say

BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST=''
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
IPADDR='192.168.1.100'
MTU=''
NAME=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'

I dont see this on my ubuntu dapper system. Are they refering to /etc/networks/interface file.

Thanks for all the help

Gimmee

For now I'd stick with the wifi-radar GUI. Don't mess with config files unless the GUI doesn't work for you. The IPADDR in your example is a local address like that assigned by NAT. It's not a valid static address for access over the web. Ubuntu wouldn't use wlan0. Your wireless connection is most likely eth1. Note not all help you're offered on the web will work as stated because your environment may be different from that of the help provider. Never use anything you haven't researched in documentation, understand and makes sense to you.