On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:44:09 -0700, Timothy Daniels wrote:

> I was trying to set up Wi-Fi in my new Dell laptop so
> that it could communicate with my Linksys 802.11g
> wireless router. But every time that I entered "WPA2"
> in Ubuntu's setup wizard, it spontaneously changed
> back to "WPA" after I restarted. "WPA2" had been
> working fine for months on my wireless LAN for Vista
> on my laptop, XP on my desktop, my printer, and the
> Linksys router. But I had to reset every device on the
> LAN to use WPA to keep Ubuntu happy. Is WPA2
> Personal encryption available for Ubuntu?
>
> *TimDaniels*

I have wicd installed as my wired/wireless network connection tool. You
can find it here http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

I now use wpa2 for my own wireless router. Wicd works brilliant. Think of
netsetman for windows and your on the right track for wicd (ish)