I updated from Feisty to Gutsy yesterday and had massive problems making an internet connection via wlan. My Acer Aspire 5650 has an Intel IPW3945 WLAN card and the kernel modules were loaded successfully without any errors. The restricted WLAN driver was listed as "in use" in Ubuntu's restriced driver manager, so I expected to have a working driver configuration.
Somehow I assumed it had something to do with the network manager. So I completely removed the Network Manager via
apt-get remove network-manager
and configured my wlan interface (using instructions
from a german ubuntu forum) manually editing /etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
auto eth1
My wpa_supplicant.conf looks something like this:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid="YourWlanSSID"
# scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=YourPSK
}
Note: I am using WPA encryption for my WLAN.
You can test your wpa_supplicant configuration using the following command:
sudo wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
Option -i defines the network interface name of your WLAN card. Option -D declares the driver to use and option -c defines the wpa_supplicant configuration file.
After this I restarted my system and I got a working wlan connection to my Access Point.