I got mad trying to connect to my new Fonera from my laptop, which has a Intel Centrino ipw2200, using the Ubuntu Edgy release, but I finally managed to get it working. This is what i’ve done:

* Run wpa_passphrase essid, where essid is your wpa-protected-router essid.

* Copy the output from above command and paste them into /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. You’ll have something like:

network={
ssid="your-router-essid"
#psk="12123123"
psk=d50785b957b37711dbff2f34bcb87c90295b81dd3650997338d3a8e49d86b120
}


* Now, you need to edit what you pasted, to look like this:

network={
ssid="your-router-essid"
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
#psk="12123123"
psk=d50785b957b37711dbff2f34bcb87c90295b81dd3650997338d3a8e49d86b120
}


* Then edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:

iface lo inet loopback
auto lo
 
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
 
auto wlan0 < - Your wireless interface name
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid your_router_essid < - Your router essid
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf


* At last, restart the network /etc/init.d/networking restart

Now you’re connected using WPA!

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