Airlink 101 AWLL3028 USB WiFi in Ubuntu 8.04 update for Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009

By Steven Rosenberg on September 22, 2009 11:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I've had the Airlink 101 AWLL3028 USB WiFi running all morning in Ubuntu 8.04, and there have been no crashes.

That's a very good sign.

My next task is to tackle why with any wireless NIC (of the three I have), I can't manage to configure NetworkManager (a GNOME pox) to connect to my Netgear router with WEP. Soon enough I'm going to move to WPA2, and perhaps that will solve the problem.

I can go into "Roaming Mode" in NetworkManager and then manually type in the WEP key, but when I set up a location I either can't reach the gateway (with static IP) or can't get an IP at all (with DHCP). I'll have to turn off the encryption and see if then I can configure NetworkManager to connect to this router, then try WPA2.

Again, I can connect in "roaming mode." But overall, once again, things shouldn't be this hard.

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