[clue-tech] wireless on Ubuntu

[Yuko Jonah]

Collins, you can come by the house to test your wireless, since i lived
close to you now.

On 6/9/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Back to the topic at hand.
>
> I spent a few hours this afternoon and evening working on my wireless
> (Atheros chip).
>
> 1. Found a report on Ubuntu forums that wicd (used to be Connection
> Manager) would do the trick, so I removed Network Manager and
> installed wicd. No results.
>
> 2. Lots more googling and foruming, but nothing turned up, so I did a
> little sleuthing and dmesging. No sign of a wireless card anywhere.
>
> 3. Finally the light bulb went on. The Ubuntu kernel upgrades don't
> always upgrade everything related (piss poor design, IMO). I was
> bitten by that a few months ago with the nvidia modules on my desktop
> system. So, I installed linux-restricted-modules-generic again, and lo
> and behold it installed the correct version.
>
> 4. Reboot, and at least I got dmesg output for the Atheros card. I
> also got a popup with the standard Debian bullshit: you've loaded a
> module that we don't like the looks of. Yes, I know it's proprietary,
> so shut up and go away. Still no results from wicd. wicd presumes that
> the wireless is device wlan0, but the dmesg output indicated wifi0, so
> I updated the preferences and tried again. No cigar. Enter iwconfig.
> Aha, iwconfig thinks it's device ath0! Updated the preferences, and
> success.
>
> 5. Now I need to figure out how to put the wicd gui monitor in the
> xubuntu panel. The wise ones in Ubuntu land have screwed with xfce
> sufficiently, that nothing makes sense. I can get it there manually,
> ie '/opt/wicd/edgy-panel.py &', so all is not lost. The xubuntu 'add
> new item' to panel function is brain dead - only certain
> pre-determined functions can be added.
>
> 6. Now I need to take the laptop somewhere that has WEP to see if that
> wil work. My (part time) wirelss at home is totally unsecured.
>
> Enjoy,
> --
> Collins Richey
>     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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Yuko Jonah

-There is no evil greater than that committed by those who claim to do their
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