Ubuntu 7.10: Frustration Killer
So apparently Fedora Core 8 simply sucks (as most of their releases have for some time) and Ubuntu seems to still reign supreme for ease of use. Out of the box Ubuntu supports WPA2 which is awesome. On Fedora 8 I would have had to try and configure the WPA Supplicant daemon which seemed to be much more hassle than it was worth. As a matter of fact, I am using Firefox on my new Ubuntu install to write this post only about 45minutes after I installed the system. Score one for Ubuntu.
Linux: WPA2 and Frustration
So recently I have been trying to get my old (2 Ghz Centrino) laptop to work on my wireless network with Linux and it is causing major headaches as I use a router with WPA2. I'm not really willing to go back to WEP or WPA1 because I want my home network to be as secure as possible so I am stuck trying to find a way to get this laptop up and running. I was able to find a nice tutorial here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834 and it gives a really nice walthrough of using some nifty tools to get WPA2 working.
I haven't done this yet (to use the apt installer you need to have a connection) but I will post my experience here when I am done since I'm sure this is a pretty common need with newer routers.
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