Connect Linux to a Wireless Network

摘要

Improvements in the latest Ubuntu release, version 7.10, include better hardware installation, enhanced desktop search, NTFS support (which I'll cover in the next month's Linux Solution)— and much better wireless networking. You could certainly connect to a wireless network with earlier versions, but wireless networking just seems to work better with 7.10. In addition, it natively supports Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security. With that in mind, let's turn now to getting Ubuntu working with an existing wireless Windows network.