Why Are "Identical" Systems Different?

[Andrew Farris]

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 13:26 -0500, John Graddy wrote:
[snip]
> When I tried this, I found that one system (the one without the built in
> LAN interface) had a System->Admin->Network entry and the other system
> does not have such an entry.
> 
> I have two questions.  One is why do I have different System->Admin
> menus and the second is how do I get an automatic wireless network
> connection.

     1. If you updated from an older version of ubuntu, you might still
        have a 'Network' option under "System > Administration", but
        honestly, I think that's been gone since like...Ubuntu 6.10. It
        couldn't also been auto-added from installing some other
        networking software, etc...
     2. Right click on network-manager in your panel ( the little 2
        computers icon, or sometimes a wireless signal indicator ) and
        go to "Edit Connections" then the "wireless" tab. From there you
        can manually set up/add wireless networks.  Though if you just
        connect to the network you want once, NM is _supposed_ to store
        the connection for you, and 'remember' it next time the wireless
        ssid is found ( provided the auth info matches :) )

Hope that helps!

-- 
Andrew
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