A number of problemsu

[Ben Novack]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:12:15 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:56:44PM -0400, Ben Novack wrote:
> 
> > 1) I've got an AC97 internal sound chip, and it only plays through the
> > laptop's built-in speakers. The headphone jack's silent.
> 
> Haven't heard that one before.  Have you tried adjusting the various levels
> in the mixer applet?

*slaps forehead* Not yet. I'll try that the next time I boot Ubuntu up.
 
> > 2) I've got a USB flash drive (A Lexar JumpDrive), plus an 80-gig
> > external drive (Maxtor). Both are FAT32 formatted. Both have been
> > recognized without a problem by 2.4-kernel distros. Once, for no
> > discernable reason, Ubuntu found the flash drive and put it on my
> > desktop, but five or six other attempts lead to failure. I pop in the
> > drive and nothing happens. My USB mouse works without a hitch.
> 
> File a bug with the output of the "lshal" command with the devices plugged
> in.
> 
> > 3) My 802.11b wireless card seems to have been detected, since I got a
> > handy connection-strength meter applet. However, I can't actually
> > connect! I used the Networking program to create a new Wireless
> > connection, but when I tried to enable it, the Networking program sat
> > frozen for a few minutes, then unchecked the Enabled box. This
> > happened even in the presence of an unsecured wifi network. Also, to
> > get at the network I'll be using most often, I need to be able to
> > specify an SSID (it's not broadcast) and a 128-bit WEP in the form of
> > a hex sequence. Where do I do that?
> 
> The "network name" is used for the ESSID
> (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295).  Currently, there
> doesn't seem to be a place to configure the WEP key in the GUI configurator.
> Enough people have asked about it that I think it deserves a bug report as
> well.

Hmmmm.... 

Okay, so it's not available in the GUI. I can live with that - if
there's a way to do it with text files. (Which I assume there is, this
being Linux and all.) Where can I go to do it?

Also, some clarification on the networking problems, because I had
access tonight to a totally unsecured wired network, and a wireless
one too:

I can create connections. If I try to click the 'active' checkbox,
however (ie, to enable the connection) one of two things will happen:
The Networking setup program will hang, eventually prompting me to
force-quit, or the box will desselect itself in a second or two.

Note that on this same unsecured wireless network (Well, it's MAC
filtered, but no WEP or WPA), another laptop with a PCMCIA wifi card,
also running the Warty prerelease, has no problems getting on. In
fact, it was my friend's amazement that his card was detected with no
problems that made me decide to go Ubuntu.
 
> > 4) Worst of all, my wired connection doesn't work. Annoyingly, my
> > university's dorms are set up to use 802.1x authentication, which means
> > that until I'm authenticated, DHCP clients and the like won't see anything
> > at all out there. I need to get xsupplicant installed and set up. I
> > grabbed the source and moved it into the ubuntu machine during the one
> > time that my usb drive was recognized. I ran sudo ./configure in the
> > expanded directory. It foudn two missing prereqs: gcc and openssl. (I have
> > to confess to being open-mouthed amazed that there was no C compiler at
> > all in the default installation). I popped over to Synaptic and found both
> > available on the CD. I installed them, and the configure happily finds
> > gcc... but insists that OpenSSL isn't installed!
> 
> xsupplicant sounds like the kind of thing that we should have on the CD,
> packaged and ready to go.  It seems to have been added to Debian recently;
> I'll see if it's suitable for a late inclusion in Warty.  Meanwhile, here's
> a package built for Warty:
> 
> http://people.no-name-yet.com/~mdz/temp/xsupplicant_1.0-1_i386.deb
> 
> If you can find a way to get that onto your system, it should get you going.
> Install it with "sudo dpkg --install xsupplicant_1.0-1_i386.deb"
> 
> In the case of OpenSSL, it's looking for the development library, while you
> probably only installed the command-line tools.  We don't ship development
> libraries on the CD (there isn't nearly enough space), though we do include
> the compiler and associated tools.

Wow, many thanks for the package. 

How would I go about getting the development library? I'm having
enough success with the usb key that I'm reasonably confident I can
get files on to install them, if I know where to get them from - I'll
just download them in Windows and dump them onto the usb key from
there. I'm looking at a chicken-and-egg situation here, since proper
apt-getting requires network access, which requires xsupplicant, which
requires openssl, which requires apt-get...