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Wireless Internet Anything related to getting wireless set up in Linux. WLAN, WiFi, etc.

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12-14-2006	#1 (permalink)
dalinux_n00bie Linux Newbie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 225	WPA and wireless on live cd How do you connect to a WPA wireless network? __________________ "Do or do not...there is no try" -Yoda History is a set of lies agreed upon by the winners. Linux is user friendly, not idiot friendly. Linux User 437442

12-14-2006	#2 (permalink)
bigtomrodney /etc/init.d/moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sunny South-East of Ireland Posts: 6,038	Assuming you have your wifi card working, the easiest way nin my opinion is to install wpa_supplicant and networkmanager/nm-applet wpa_supplicant will look after your encryption and NetworkManager gives a nice interface and an automatic setup for it. __________________ Registered Linux user #378740 New members read here / Forum Rules #linuxforums on irc.freenode.net

12-14-2006	#3 (permalink)
dalinux_n00bie Linux Newbie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 225	so those programs or on the CD? What commands do i type to install them? __________________ "Do or do not...there is no try" -Yoda History is a set of lies agreed upon by the winners. Linux is user friendly, not idiot friendly. Linux User 437442

12-14-2006	#4 (permalink)
antidrugue Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 3,213	You are on Kubuntu ? The package is network-manager-kde, you can install it from synaptic. __________________ "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow." -Bruce Lee

12-14-2006	#5 (permalink)
dalinux_n00bie Linux Newbie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 225	Well thats why i posted the Ubantu forms as well. I want to test out Gentoo and Kubuntu. so thats why I posted in the Gentoo forum as well. __________________ "Do or do not...there is no try" -Yoda History is a set of lies agreed upon by the winners. Linux is user friendly, not idiot friendly. Linux User 437442

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