Hey JSUPreston! Linux and LEAP

[crokett]

In an earlier thread you asked about Ubuntu and LEAP. If you didn't solve your problem, I have a potential solution. After the troubles with XP on my laptop I put Ubuntu on it. I was having problems with connecting to the wireless network here at work today with LEAP. I found a new network manager called wicd that is much better than the default Ubuntu one, and it lets me connect to the wireless, with the same userid and password that didn't work with the default Ubuntu manager.

Here are the instructions:

# add the repository to your sources
echo "deb http://apt.wicd.net intrepid extras" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

#get the key
wget q http://apt.wicd.net/wicd.gpg -O | sudo apt-key add -

#install the package
sudo apt-get install wicd

After you install the package, the default network-admin may complain that it can't get to the resources it needs to continue. Wicd is much nicer and has a lot more options. Plus it works.

[JSUPreston]

Funny thing is I don't have to worry about LEAP ever again. I finally migrated our wireless controller to PEAP, and except for the wireless phones, life is good. Even though they are in a different VLAN all together, the wireless controller didn't like using LEAP on one VLAN and PEAP on the other. Phones are now using PEAP as well, with a generic id/password just for the phones.

Thank you for reminding me...time to go set some MAC address filters. Also, thank you for the info. I'm going to hang on to it "just in case."