Issues with XORG.CONF and WPA wireless

[Andrew Mathenge]

Interesting.

Is your Hardy installation an upgrade or a clean installation?

My upgrade gave me problems to no end. It took over a week to get a
stable running system from my upgrade from Gutsy. And, like you,
updates using update manager would clobber one thing or another.

I finally gave up and did a clean install. Backed up all my stuff and
wiped the system clean.

I haven't had a problem since.

I had problems with wireless in Gutsy that I solved using ndiswrapper.
Hardy supports my broadcom card using restricted drivers and there've
been two updates since. None have disabled the system. I don't use
ndiswrapper any more.

The other problem you mention is the GUI. My nvidia card was easy to
set up in Gutsy but I had to do that manually using the envy package.
That allowed for the screen resolution (1440 x 900) that I like. The
detected driver only gave me 800x600.

If you did an upgrade you might be experiencing problems symptomatic
to those described in infinite posts in the Ubuntu forums. Everybody
out there on Hardy is advocating a clean install.

Andrew.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Steven Birnam <stevenbirnam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rsn update manager for my Hardy install, and not only did it kill my
> GUI again - it clobbered my wireless connection.
>
> I found out what the trouble is - seems that upgrading certain modules
> wipes out the XORG.CONF file - I thought I might have to do total
> reinstall again - but somehow got GNOME interface upo and running.
>
> Then found I couldn't connect to wireless - that was my fault - I
> switched from WEP to WPA Personal, and didn't know thatI now had to
> configure WPAsupplicant (had no idea that I had to make additional
> changes to get WPA Pers to work - there are no notes in router
> configuration instructions about new requirements for using WPA as
> opposed to WEP).
>
> Steven Birnam
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