[ubuntu-uk] Help required with a wi-fi networking problem

[A]

If you've enabled precise-proposed (or precise-backports etc) then you
get access to some newer, developmental bugfix packages etc
If the fixed wpasupplicant package is then uploaded to the main
'precise' repository, which is enabled by default, then all's well. I
like to keep all the precise-* repos enabled because it gives you access
to fixes and new features that have trickled through from upstream,
without having to jump to the next release(s).

Short answer: i'd keep precise-proposed access enabled.

Happy to help get your wife's connection sorted. I'm at university
myself and new linux users often have to sink or swim with things like
this: take this life jacket ;)

On 11/10/12 10:22, Barry Titterton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is an established bug for WPA Enterprise wi-fi networks:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/969343/+index?comments=all
>
>
> In the past few days a fix to the wpasupplicant package has been
> proposed that requires the user to enable the precise-proposed
> repository (see comment #109 in the above bug report/discussion). My
> question is:-
>
> If I follow the wiki instructions for enabling the precise-proposed
> repository, what happens to my computer when the fix is released as an
> official update? Will I need to disable the precise-proposed
> repository? The laptop runs ubuntu 12.04.
>
> Background:-
> My wife has just started as a mature(!?!) student at St Johns college
> in Durham university. The university network uses the aforementioned
> WPA Enterprise encryption system. All other students on her course use
> either Windows or Macs and they have, with a little struggle,  manged
> to connect to the university network. My wife's ubuntu laptop is the
> only machine that has, so far, failed to establish a connection. I
> will not be able to check if the fix has worked until I go into
> college tonight.
>
> Are there any other Durham students on the mailing list, or students
> of other academic institutions, that have had this problem with their
> university's wi-fi network?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Barry T
> In the frozen north.
>