Mepis Wireless Networking problem..

[abdo88]

Hey guys,

My problem in short is that I have Mepis Linux version 3.4-3 on my Fujitsu Siemens laptop with a Intel ProWireless card....

I have a wireless unsecured network at home and I connect to it just fine... So this tells me that Mepis recognizes my card and that everything is OK...

However in my Uni there is a wireless WPA secured network that I want to connect to... I set up everything on OS center and control center properly... and then I open KWiFi Manager and scan for networks and indeed it finds it... then I select its name and click ok ... then status says:

Searching for GUCWLAN
ip: 00:00:00:00:00:00

And it doesn't although I have entered the key and everything...

There is no problem on the network... and somebody suggested that the key in Hexadecimal ... and when I enter the key in the configure there is no Hexadecimal option...

This is all the info that I have about the problem...

So anybody plz help me...

Thank you

[antidrugue]

I have Mepis Linux version 3.4-3 on my Fujitsu Siemens laptop with a Intel ProWireless card....

Which laptop model? Which card model?

However in my Uni there is a wireless WPA secured network that I want to connect to... I set up everything on OS center and control center properly... and then I open KWiFi Manager and scan for networks and indeed it finds it... then I select its name and click ok ... then status says:

Do you have "wpasupplicant" installed?

There is no problem on the network... and somebody suggested that the key in Hexadecimal ... and when I enter the key in the configure there is no Hexadecimal option...

Hexadecimal key are for WEP encrypted network.

See this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#Security
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access

And please don't double post :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mep...g-problem.html

[abdo88]

Hi, first of all I'm sorry I double posted but I needed a very quick solution...

I found that wpasupplicant is not installed and I did install it so I'll try to connect again ... and if it doesn't work I'll specify the other details...

Thank you