wpa in ubuntu edgy

[monachetti]

I'm having a heck of a time getting my dell inspiron e1505 to connect to wireless for wep/wpa protected networks. by the way i'm pretty much new at linux. anyways, i pretty much did everything on this link:

http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html

i'm to the point where i can see wireless networks in the area, and i can connect to unprotected networks, but when i try to connect to my wpa protected network, i put in the info, but never connects. it tries for a bit and reverts back to my wired connection after awhile. i tried reading some of the log files, but i guess i don't know what to make fo them anyway.

i'm getting tired of reading threads all over google, so if anyone around here has any ideas, that'd be awesome.

 

[deuce868]

check out the network-manager application. It will install with the code to support wpa and works really well. Just make sure you know how to hard code a network connection in case you can't into the gui and need to get the machine online.