wireless connection failed w/ Kubuntu

I'm using an Atheros card, so hardware compatibility should not be an issue. I'm using WPA-PSK encryption with a set encryption key. My gateway is 192.168.1.1 and my laptop's IP is 192.168.1.2. DHCP is automatically enabled, and I am using the Wireless Assistant Manager 0.5.5 but it keeps "failing to connect". I thought that maybe I wasn't giving it enough time but it still failed even after I set the timeout limit to 60 seconds. I have MAC address restriction enabled but I don't think that that is the problem. When I first selected my network in the Wireless Assistant Manager it asked me whether I wanted to use a WEP or WEP (shared) encryption. Wtf? It then asks me for the ESSID, which I'm assuming is the SSID, the network name. Are they referring to WPA or does Kubuntu not even support it?

I considered whether my laptop must log on to a Windows network with a workgroup, so I assigned it to MSHOME, but that did not work either.
The chip is enabled and everything, I don't know what's wrong - how do I go about fixing this?

*update* I typed in the router's IP in linux's firefox and it couldn't connect! Windows didn't have a problem.

 

the problem most likely is that Linux does not yet natively support WPA encryption, however, there is something called wpa_supplicant to help deal with that.

but that is complicated... just enter this into a terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get install network-manager knetworkmanager

network manager goes into your notification tray, and gives a nice little GUI w/ a pop-up menu to select wireless networks, plus it integrates WPA encryption. it totally automates networking for you, defaults to wired network if you connect to one, and automatically connects to wireless when you disconnect.

 

Thanks A LOT for the help.

One last thing - how do I install Mad Wifi; im running on an atheros card.

 

I posted in your other thread about getting madwifi