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Just moved in with a roomate who has wireless. My operating system is linux, ubuntu. I cant connect to the?
internet at our new house. The password is 26 characters long. My computer is only allowing me to enter up to 20 characters. I changed the encryption, still doesnt work. She said it needs to be set to WAP. For some reason it wont show up as an option. Only WEP, and LEAP, and a couple others. I did try all though. When I bring my laptop anywhere else....starbucks, parents place, work, it connects perfectly fine to their wireless, with their passwords. BUT...at their houses, WAP shows up as an option. Anyone know how I can be able to enter 26 characters for a password, or is there a different cheap option I can plug into my computer, or something? I dont want to get a new laptop over this!! Thanks!!
sorry, wpa
YES, i meant WPA!!
5 Answers
- Jessica QuellerLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
You must mean WPA. Because WPA doesn't show up as an option, it sounds as if your wireless card (has nothing to do with Ubuntu; it would be the same in Windows) doesn't support WPA encryption.
You can try to force it by selecting to choose another network instead of the ones listed, and then you can type in the SSID (the name of her wireless signal) by hand and then choose WPA manually.
- Anonymous5 years ago
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Plug another ethernet cable to the router and plug the other end to your laptop. That's the "cheap" way. It wont be wireless anymore though. Also why doesn't she change the encryption to WEP or something else? WEP is like way shorter...not like anybody is going to freaking crack it...it's like 6 or 8 characters long... even I can't remember it..
- cenLv 71 decade ago
You don't happen to have a Linksys WRT54xxx do you? That series of routers has many issues with Linux wifi drivers, such as madwifi.
I know it may sound strange, but try using ndiswrapper and the Windows version of your wireless card driver and use WICD network manager. That's the only way I got my Atheros card working withy my WRT54G under Xubuntu.
EDIT: Sorry I forgot the link to WICD:
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- ?Lv 41 decade ago
WAP is not an option. Perhaps you mean WPA or WPA2? If may be that your wireless chipset doesn't support those methods.
