Ubuntu "Lite"

[Rainer Gutkas]

Mike Drabik schrieb:

>>>Good to hear that you are interested.<<
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>Yes, I am.  Thanks for your response, Colin.
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>>>I have not tested it on a laptop yet.<<
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>So, I guess I'll be a part of the testers. That's fine
>with me.
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>I do want to get entirely away from Windows - esp. ME.
>But this ol' Laptop is also used on the job and so
>ME's got to stay until I get Linux working right -
>including wirelessly with WEP encryption.  So, it
>looks like I'll have to be doing it on the weekends.
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>As for the wireless issue, I'll follow your advice an
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To bring wireless running under linux with wep encryption enabled isn't 
too hard to do. I used mine as main Installation repository. Here's 
what's in the file:

/etc/network/interfaces

concerning wireless (Besides the key is written there in plain text, 
which seems somehow a bit strange to me:

# The wireless network interface, in my case it's eth1, but it can also 
be wlan0,...

iface eth1 inet static
    # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
    wireless-mode managed
    wireless-essid YourSSID
                         
    wireless-key 17af34711ee00555128dfe52  
    address 123.78.0.190
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 123.78.0.1

Hope this helps,

Rainer



auto eth1



>>>. . .  try to configure it via the live cd and just
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>pinch the config file.<< 
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>>>Either way let me know how you go.<<
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>I will - but there will be lag time as indicated
>above.
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>The Live-CD I will be looking forward to.
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>Finally, you can put me on the Unbuntu Lite email
>list. That's why I'm sending this email to you
>personally as well.
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>Mike in Toledo, Ohio, USA
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