wireless on 9.04
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 19:53:23 UTC 2009
Shannon McMackin wrote:
> On 09/09/2009 01:46 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Shannon McMackin wrote:
>>> On 09/09/2009 08:00 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>> I and others wrote a bug for 9.04 because we could not get wireless
>>>> working after we got a lot of updates. It appears to me now working with
>>>> 9.10 alfa 3 that the Key-chain is the thing that causes confusion when
>>>> setting up wireless.
>>>>
>>>> Here is what happened with 9.10. It came up with no Internet after
>>>> installing on the hard drive. Everything else was fine. I right clicked
>>>> the two monitor in the upper right edge of the screen, and a panel came
>>>> down showing the 3 wireless signals I receive now at home. I selected my
>>>> own and a new panel came up asking for my router password. I gave it and
>>>> expected the network manager to start getting the Internet but no.
>>>>
>>>> Another panel came up asking for me to put in a password for a
>>>> key-ring! I put in a simple password, and THEN the Internet started working.
>>>>
>>>> After a re-boot again the 9.10 comes up without Internet working. This
>>>> time you right click the monitors and the key-chain panel wants you to
>>>> give it a password and when you do, it works.
>>>>
>>>> Now on 9.04 I went through all this and then tried "wicd" and never
>>>> looked back. This replacement for network manager after a reboot has
>>>> Internet ready before the rest of the system is started!
>>>>
>>>> My question to the group is this: Is anyone using wireless Internet
>>>> still using network manager on 9.04? If so are you using the key-ring
>>>> password like I did?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Karl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have never had the problems you describe with key-ring. Default
>>> installs every time. Since before I can remember and this is maybe back
>>> to Edgy, I install and select my wireless AP and enter the information
>>> and connect. Never prompted for a keyring password.
>>>
>>> Current NM is awesome for me, switching APs and with some WPAsupplicant
>>> patches, it's flawless on my corporate LEAP network.
>>>
>>>
>> Have you ever used 9.04? Edgy had no problems you see. This problem
>> never came up until version 9.04 and your email makes me think you have
>> never used 9.04 so you have no background to talk from.
>>
> I have used every version of Ubuntu since Breezy Badger.
>
> I jumped into Jaunty when it was Alpha 4, Karmic when it was Alpha 2.
> Before that i always waited for RC images before jumping in. I always
> do a fresh install so that no flakiness is left behind. I have /home on
> a separate partition, so moving data is easy.
>
>
OK I jumped into Jaunty at Beta. No problems after switching to the
replacement for NM. I did write a bug to Jaunty about the gmail.key and
other encombering matter that made NM not work well.
I was asked last week by Pedro to d/l Karmic alfa 3 and see if it has
the same problem as 9.04 has. I did that and Karmic has exactly the same
problem!
Read back a few emails and see how many other people have this problem
and what they did to correct for it.
Finally I think your a liar. There is no way you could miss this
problem IF your using wireless.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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