On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

[Aere Greenway]

On 05/07/2014 08:44 PM, Israel wrote:
> That is extremely bizarre.... Did you use the same disk image that was 
> successful before?
> I know you said the md5sum checked out... but it is odd that you 
> should get something so different.
>
Israel:

I now partially understand the bizarre.

The live CD I installed my systems from was not the actual release 
version.  It was the beta-test version, and I later installed updates to 
bring the system up to current levels.

After the release, I downloaded the actual release ISO, and made a live 
CD and a live USB from it.

I dug around in my waste-basket, and found the beta-test live CD, booted 
it in one of the machines it worked in before, and to my surprise (and 
relief), it worked fine with the wireless dongle.  It was also the 
network tool I was used to using.

Apparently, the release ISO either has something new replacing the 
wireless configuration tools that worked (in the beta release), or there 
is something missing in it.

I checked in Synaptic Package manager, and found the "wpasupplicant" 
package, and also "network-manager" in the beta system.

I terminated, and re-booted the release-level live CD (in which the 
wireless is still not working), and it also had those two packages. 
Neither system had the "wicd" package (I had heard mentioned sometime in 
the past), so that is not a factor.

Apparently it is not possible to configure a WEP wireless network on the 
release live CD/USB.

Any ideas of what might be missing?

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere