8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-07-24, Jason Crain <jason at bluetree.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, July 24, 2008 8:39 am, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Jason Crain wrote:
>>> On Thu, July 24, 2008 7:01 am, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>     Now that is a really stupid thing to do!
>>>>
>>>>     Yes and that is really hard to do isn't it. Poor boy.
>>>>
>>>>     Gosh a password too? What kind of WiFi are you stealing? Maybe this
>>>> is the whole problem. If you had just loaded Hardy and rebooted and did
>>>> the little easy things and then let it just sit turned on for 30
>>>> minutes, it might have just started working. Mine did.
>>>
>>> Can we remove Larsen from this list, already?
>>
>>     Mr. Crain does a wild miss quote of what I wrote and calls for my
>> removal from this list.  I think a person who is this small and
>> vindictive should be one who is removed.
>
> The original post is still there, if anyone cares to look.  My
> point is that no matter the tone of the original post,

For which I should probably apologize.  I'd been beating my
head against the wall for hours trying to get wireless
networking to work.  (I never did get it to work unless I
manually restarted the network and then manually set the
password via wap_cli.)

The problem with wpa_supplicant not starting seems to be a
chronic problem in Ubunto (I've found bug reports on it going
back 3 years).  I don't even know where to start trying to
troublshoot the network manager's inability to set the WPA
password.  The machine is due back in it's owner's hands today,
so I'm giving up.  I'm going to wipe the parition, restore the
XP MBR and tell the computer's owner to stick with XP. :/

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