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I had removed network-manager as soon as I installed Ubuntu 10.04.

Earlier I used to do the following to connect (successfully) on command line:
iwconfig eth2 essid NASA
dhclient eth2

Now that WPA2 encryption is enabled, I tried this, but failed:
iwconfig eth2 essid NASA key hunter2
dhclient eth2

with error:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "hunter2"

Where am I going wrong?

lspci gives:
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)

lshw -C network gives:

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth2
version: 01
serial: 78:e4:00:2e:54:28
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=192.1.0.20 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:56000000-56003fff

Edit 1: As suggested by CYREX, I tried WPA directions given in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188
In the command:
sudo wpa_supplicant -D wext -i eth2 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
I used wext as the driver.

When I run this command, the following happens:
Trying to associate with 00:24:b2:39:f4:c6 (SSID='NASA' freq=2462 MHz) ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Device or resource busy
Association request to the driver failed
Associated with 00:1b:2f:a8:da:cc
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:1b:2f:a8:da:cc
[PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP] CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1b:2f:a8:da:cc
completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]

I tried both his WPA1 and WPA2 stuff. In either case iwconfig eth2 gives Encryption key: off.

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I made this one: How to connect and disconnect to a network manually in terminal?

But i think it won't work since i later found out that when you put a WPA key, the whole thing gets a "little" complicated. Not so easy as iwconfi wlan0 key s:password for like WEP security. I then found out this HUGE post which has in detail information that worked in my case for WPA and WPA2 using PSK (At least in my case) I hope it helps you too:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188

NOTE: Make sure your card supports WPA. Happen to one of my students that he spend a week trying this and it did not work since his card did not support WPA (It did not even have anything WPA related).

More Specific link about WPA2 -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=607410 Good luck, let me know how it went.

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  • I tried WPA directions given in: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188

    In the command: sudo wpa_supplicant -D wext -i eth2 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
    I used wext as the driver. When I run this command, the following happens:
    Trying to associate with 00:24:b2:39:f4:c6 (SSID='NASA' freq=2462 MHz) ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Device or resource busy Association request to the driver failed Associated with 00:1b:2f:a8:da:cc WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:1b:2f:a8:da:cc [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP] CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1b:2f:a8:da:cc completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]

     –  Dec 26 '10 at 09:08
  • BTW, I tried both his WPA1 and WPA2 stuff. In either case iwconfig eth2 gives Encryption key: off. –  Dec 26 '10 at 09:15
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    @avinash Add all this information to your question please so it doesn't get buried in the comments. – Jorge Castro Dec 26 '10 at 16:31
  • @Luis Alvardo thanks for making these guides I was searching for some information and reached your hard work – Registered User Oct 10 '13 at 23:42