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

[Sean Crago]

Unfortunately it works so poorly in my specific configuration, works
so poorly with secured access points, that the primary tutorials for
Ubuntu push users in the direction that I took. It's a damned shame
that it doesn't work as seemlessly and easily as it does in the OSS
embedded GTK Maemo, but NetworkManager really didn't work for me.

-Sean

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Justin Dugger <jldugger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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
>