I have an android phone that I use to tether with to get internet during my lunch hour. I cannot get either two of my apps (Barnacle, WIFI Tether) which are the two best rated wifi tether apps in the market place to work on my Ubuntu laptop. I can get a Windows XP and a Windows 7 box to connect to the network without a problem but the Ubuntu box (actually I have two separate laptops with Ubuntu that won't work, same version but different model laptop) tries to connect but it never does.

I've read from a few others that they've also had this problem but never found a solution for it. Someone said Ubuntu doesn't allow connections to AD HOC networks right now. Another person said to change the WLAN0 settings to 1250 (which I did) but it didn't help.

Short version: I can't get my Ubuntu laptop to connect to my wifi tethered android phone. The apps and phone work just fine, they tether with my Windows laptops. I just can't get it to work on the ones with Ubuntu.