Wireless setup with Ubuntu

[Shannon McMackin]

On 04/02/2009 09:26 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Shannon McMackin wrote:
>> On 04/01/2009 11:47 PM, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:klarsen1 at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      The only successful wireless I have ever had is with my 8.10 on my
>>>      laptop. Even this is quite hard to get right because there are now 3
>>>      strong wireless signals in my room.
>>>
>>>      What happens first when you boot up is a panel that will not go away
>>>      until I give it my password.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Keyring Manager can be quite irritating, but it works quite
>>> seamlessly once you have all the correct passwords in it.
>>>
>>>      Then the network-manager tries to connect
>>>      to the first strong wireless but of course it fails because we have the
>>>      wrong password.
>>>
>>>      After a while it quits and then tries the next strong wireless signal
>>>      with the same wrong password. Panels with the information for each
>>>      wireless signal will be displayed and all I can do is click on "OK" or
>>>      "Cancel". Or I can put a different password in.
>>>
>>>      Now it just quits sending panels and I can click on the two tiny
>>>      computers and get a list of the wireless signals I am receiving. This is
>>>      VERY important! On Ubuntu that are not going to be able to use wireless,
>>>      you click on the computers and you see no wireless listed. This bodes
>>>      poor for that system.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is strange. My NetworkManager NEVER tried connecting to each and
>>> every SSID on it's own.
>>> I work in a Networking company and there are about 50 SSIDs in my room
>>> alone. It NM did that for every SSID, I would have been
>>> complaining long back.
>>>
>>> Having said that, since I do a lot of Wifi unit testing, I know that
>>> NM's wireless aspect is not too great.
>>> I prefer wicd to NM, but then if you use VPN (Ipsec and PPTP) as much
>>> frequently, you will find that NM rules !!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Raseel
>>>
>>>
>> I've only seen NM automatically connect to open APs and any APs that
>> you've associated with and stored a password.
>>
>>
>>
> Hi I think you need to see how many of the good wireless signals are
> listed in your system. I have 4 that are usable and they somehow got on
> my list of usable signals. But I decided to delete all but my own signal
> and no no problems. The stupid keyring thing keeps coming up. It's a
> total waste of time. But you MUST use it because someone stupid at
> Ubuntu makes it that way :-)
>
>
> Karl
>
>
That's odd, I've got Jaunty beta running on my laptop and I never get 
bugged by keyring.  Maybe I don't have it installed...