Ubuntu Wifi Problems

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I recently installed ubuntu 9.04 on an old laptop, and it picks up wireless networks, but it won't work with my wpa2 security. It works if I create an unsecured wifi network with an old router, but that still leaves my network open.

My husband knows. I will ask him to help you when he gets home. He loves ubuntu

Which wifi card is it, what chipset?
Do you know what driver ubuntu is using, is it using ndiswrapper??

no, it's not, its the automatically assigned driver, the wifi card doesn't have a m/n on the dell website. I reinstalled xp already and it only has a 30 gb hard rive so a dual boot is out of the question. Xp is working fine and that's all I need for web browsing and office apps.

I know it isn't a solution, but you could whitelist your card's MAC address and block everything else. It would give some security if you can't get WEP to work.

30GB is enough for dual booting. How much are you going to install to your Windows' partition anyway?
I used a 20GB hard drive for Windows XP and predominantly have about 10GB for Linux partitions