Broken network initialization (Was: Re: Wanted...)

[Justin Dugger]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Sean Crago <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a well defined interfaces file (follows in the PS), but
> neither my Ubuntu laptop nor my Ubuntu desktop manages to create a
> wireless link on boot.

> Anyone got an easy fix? I'll gripe and moan until the universe dies
> its heat death about the age and maturity of Linux not being reflected
> at all in luser-friendly GUI wifi configuration out of the box (or
> until it's fixed), but this should be what those apps are doing under
> the hood, and even it's not working right.

> # The loopback network interface
> auto wlan0 eth0 lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The primary network interface
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wpa-driver wext
> wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> wpa-proto WPA
> wpa-ssid 001601842AEE
> wpa-psk MD5_hash_of_my_WPA2-AES_key
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

Is there a reason to avoid Network Manager and applets? I've found it
works well, but as per the README requires that that specific file be
mostly blank!

Justin Dugger