I’d like to give major props to the Ubuntu Wireless Troubleshooting Guide. I was out at a place with free wifi tonight, and I could see the access point via wifi-radar, but couldn’t connect to it.

I switched over to my laptop’s Win2k partition (booo . . .) to do some research, and found the aforementioned guide. After reading it, taking a few notes, and then switching back to my Xubuntu install, all it took was for me to issue two commands via the terminal, and I was connected to the AP. It didn’t even take me to the “Hey, you’re at this restaurant,” greeting page . . . just instant surfing.

I’ve saved the Wireless Troubleshooting Guide to my home folder, and will use it as a reference until I get more familiar with the commands. Having this handy reference also means that wifi-radar is coming off of my laptop.