On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

[Aere Greenway]

On 05/07/2014 07:50 PM, Israel wrote:
> Did you test this Dongle with Ubuntu Studio 14.04 (or one of the other 
> respins?)
> Did you say that those dongles worked on *some* machines with 14.04 
> but not the other machines?
> If that is the case... my initial guess is it could possibly be the USB.
> If it works on some machines... they may have a USB 2.0 port and you 
> are using a USB 2.0 Dongle
> It wont work on another machine because it has a USB 1.0 port, and the 
> dongle needs more juice to work right..
Israel:

On the machine it failed on, all of the USB ports are USB 2.0.

On the machines it worked on, it was always in a USB 2.0 port.

It worked on Lubuntu 14.04, UbuntuStudio 14.04, and Xubuntu 14.04 (even 
on my slow 450 megahertz machine).

I remembered the HP Mini needed the b43 installer package, so I booted 
the Live USB on a machine with an ethernet connection, and installed the 
b43 package.

Later, I booted the USB on the HP Mini, and it seemed to see the 
internal wireless, and on clicking on it in some way, I got it to show 
wireless networks in-range, but on clicking on my network (and entering 
the wireless encryption key), it did not connect.

The software asking for the wireless encryption key is different from 
what I have been using before.  On the one I have been successfully 
using, it has a check-box to have it display what I am typing.  This 
different tool does not.

I am thinking it is assuming WPA, and has no way to configure WEP, so it 
just doesn't work.  But why would it be using a different network 
configuration tool than what I used before?

When I select from the menu, System...Network Settings, I get a little 
window with just "General", "DNS", and "Hosts" tabs.  I have never seen 
this before.  In those tabs, I don't see anything I could use to set up 
my wireless configuration.

This is not making sense to me.  I will try booting the live CD in one 
of the machines it worked on before and try the same dongle again.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere

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