For some reason, I couldn’t get my wireless card (Linksys WMP54G pci) working under Ubuntu 6.10. Another attempt today. First without encryption: Hey! it works!. Then WEP ‘encryption’: no luck. WPA: on my access point (asus wl530g) it’s called WPA-PSK with TKIP encryption. OS X calls it “WPA personal”. Under Linux, adapting the /etc/networking/interfaces file was sufficient:
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface ra0 inet dhcp pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid default pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode managed pre-up iwconfig ra0 channel 1 pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="mysecretpassphrase" auto ra0
So, no additional drivers / modules, just choosing the right encryption was the trick to get this card working. This was one of the posts that where very helpful.