wireless on 9.04

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 13:53 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Shannon McMackin wrote:
[snip]
> > I have used every version of Ubuntu since Breezy Badger.
> > 
> > I jumped into Jaunty when it was Alpha 4, Karmic when it was Alpha 2. 
> > Before that i always waited for RC images before jumping in.  I always 
> > do a fresh install so that no flakiness is left behind.  I have /home on 
> > a separate partition, so moving data is easy.
> > 
> > 
>     OK I jumped into Jaunty at Beta. No problems after switching to the 
> replacement for NM. I did write a bug to Jaunty about the gmail.key and 
> other encombering matter that made NM not work well.
> 
>     I was asked last week by Pedro to d/l Karmic alfa 3 and see if it has 
> the same problem as 9.04 has. I did that and Karmic has exactly the same 
> problem!
> 
>     Read back a few emails and see how many other people have this problem 
> and what they did to correct for it.
> 
>     Finally I think your a liar. There is no way you could miss this 
> problem IF your using wireless.

Thats not very kind of you. 

I've been using wireless with both my laptops, and my Desktop. My setups
are thus:
      * 1 laptop fresh Ubuntu 9.04 install(official release, not
        alpha/beta/RC)
      * 1 laptop upgraded to 9.04, started as 8.04
      * desktop upgraded to 9.04, started as 6.10

I've never has any issues with Network Manager, or the default keyring,
on any of my systems. I do remember setting up the keyring manager on my
older laptop (when setting up 8.04), and on my desktop when I first
installed, but I didn't have to do anything with the default keyring on
my new laptop. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it's existence
until reading this thread.

Obviously, I still use NM, and I love it. I haven't tried wicd, so I've
got nothing to say on it's usability in comparison to NM, but I do like
NM's ability to store network profiles, which from what I've collected
from this thread, it seems that wicd can't handle.

if I had to complain about anything with NM, it would be that there's no
way to force a refresh/recheck for wireless networks that I've found...

as for the default keyring... i thought it managed all the package
authorizations for apt? thats what I assume anyway, since all the keys
I've got/added in my apt/3rd party repos have also been added to my
keyring.

that's all i've got...

-- 
Andrew
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