Ubuntu
system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #24295
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 24295

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Gabriel Bauman (gabrielbauman) wrote : Re: Cannot enable WPA in UI

There have been some changes to the way wpa_supplicant is invoked in Debian and by proxy, Ubuntu. It's gotten a whole lot simpler.

Instead of dealing with /etc/default/wpasupplicant and /etc/wpasupplicant.conf, and starting wpa_supplicant from init.d, now all we need to do is edit /etc/network/interfaces as follows:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-driver yourdriver
        wpa-ssid MyCoolNetwork
        wpa-psk 685bac1393023d......

As far as I can tell this is a Debian-specific change, so it won't get spread to all distros. Perhaps this will make it easier to get some support into the g-s-t for WPA.