It’s been at least 12 months since I stopped using WEP on my home network and switched to WPA. I knew for a while that WEP was hackable, but I had no idea how easy it was using aircrack.
A while ago I changed KNetworkManager on my laptop from automatic to manual configuration. Don’t ask why. Since then I’ve been having trouble connecting to my network when running Linux. Windows worked flawlessly. Occasionally I’d even have to leech a neighbors network (please accept my apologies) just to read some email.
Today I decided to tackle this by going back to “Automatic” configuration and letting KNetworkManager handle the rest. After all, the Ubuntu pages do specifically say that KNetworkManager can handle WPA automatically (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WPAHowTo). Apparently going back to the auto-pilot is not so simple. After trying every menu item and searching every dialog I finally went to Google to find this post: How to switch back to automatic mode?
Turns out that you can’t. Even removing the app and reinstalling doesn’t help. There are some workarounds provided and one of them even worked. Nevertheless, I don’t understand how such a feature could be missing!?
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