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Hi everyone! Have just installed latest Debian Etch (testing) to my Toshiba A60 laptop. It installed and works beautifully - everything works, I'm really impressed and recommend it to everyone. ...
  1. 03-21-2007 #1
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    Debian Etch: how can I get WPA-PSK to work?



    Hi everyone!
    Have just installed latest Debian Etch (testing) to my Toshiba A60 laptop. It installed and works beautifully - everything works, I'm really impressed and recommend it to everyone.
    I have Cisco Aironet 350 which works fine. I need to get it to work with WPA-PSK instead of WEP which it runs on now. I tried apt-get install wireless tools wpasupplicant network-manager and it came back saying that all three are already the newest versions. Found directories called "network", "NetworkManager", "wpa_supplicant" in /etc. So I presume all of the above ARE installed. But how do I configure them and get them to work?
    Please help me, because my network is not exactly secure with WEP.
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    What kind of wireless adapter do you have on that machine ?
    Code:
    lspci | grep -i network
    will tell you.

    Normally you shouldn't have to do anything, just choose the network to connect to using network-manager (the icon at the top right), and you should be good to go.
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    lspci | grep -i network didn't return anything. I use Cisco aironet 350 pcmcia. I cannot see the icon for Network Manager anywhere (Desktop, Applications-Debian-Apps-System, Applications-System Tools). I can birng up Interface Properties for eth2, which has the connection properties like ESSID, Key type (hexadecimal or plain), IP configuration, and only has an option to enter / change WEP key, but not WPA-PSK.

    Thank you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lhm
    I cannot see the icon for Network Manager anywhere (Desktop, Applications-Debian-Apps-System, Applications-System Tools).
    The icon for NetworkManager shoud be in the system tray, near the clock.

    If you can't see it, then make sure network-manager is properly installed and configured. Some pointers here :
    http://technowizah.com/2007/02/debia...orks-with.html
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    Thank you. I have just re-installed Debian from the beginning, probably shouldn't have done that. Thought the icon doesn't appear in the system tray because I fiddled with something. But it still isn't there. Seems to be no options to switch to WPA from WEP anywhere. What else can I do?
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    I had to use wpa_supplicant to get my wireless working with wpa-psk.
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