On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:45 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009 07:11:29 -0700 > drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo: > > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:21 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I decided to take the leap and install JJ and I like it so far. However > I > > > have run in to 2 issues. I can't seem to get my wireless card to > associate > > > with my access point, something that hasn't been an issue with this > laptop > > > when using Fedora or Slackware. I also can't seem to enable desktop > effects, > > > Slackware doesn't offer this out of the box but with Fedora I had no > issues. > > > > > > I'm off to research. > > > > > Installed a couple of packages and enabled the proper plugins and compiz > > works wonderfully, my need for eye candy satisfied now I just have to > figure > > out the wifi issue. > > I downloaded the alphas of Jaunty as it neared release. At the last > Clinic I booted to the release candidate live CD. I was very pleased to > see the notification area wireless icon in the Gnome panel. Even more > pleasing was clicking on it and seeing Free Geek and a couple other > wireless networks. And it was especially pleasing to be able to just > click on Free Geek and get an IP address almost instantly. > > My laptop has the Intel 4965agn wireless. I have never had any problems > getting distros (live or otherwise) to see it. Getting it to connect > and stay connected is another matter. In the past Network Manager > sucked rocks. For example, at PSU there are always at least a dozen > networks available, although as a student I can connect only to General > Access. Nevertheless, they should all appear. They do appear if I scan > from the command line, so I know the device and its drivers are > working. But the drop-down in the Network Manager GUI rarely displayed > any available networks. Sometimes if you clicked it several dozen times > eventually it would display a few networks, and then the display would > suddenly disappear before you could click on one of them. The maddening > part was that this was the behavior for years with no improvement. > > As a result of all this a long time ago I discovered and installed > wicd. Wicd will not share its ball with other players, so installing > wicd uninstalls Network Manager. My feeling was good riddance. Wicd > always worked great. I put a little launcher icon in the Gnome panel > and when I clicked on it I could instantly see all the networks > available, even my ethernet at home. > > But I was very impressed with how well the live CD of the Jaunty > release candidate worked with wireless. So before upgrading to Jaunty I > reinstalled Network Manager and removed wicd. I was hoping that the new > version would work for me as well as it did on the release candidate. > > Unfortunately, although I have connected via wireless only twice since > the dist-upgrade, Network Manager is not working as well as it does > with the live CD. At the general meeting last night it took me several > minutes of poking to get connected. The Gnome panel icon is supposed to > display two monitors when connected to ethernet, as I am at home, and > it does so. It is supposed to change to the bars icon when you are not > connected to ethernet, and then clicking on it is supposed to display > available wireless networks. Last night it stubbornly remained the > two-monitor icon and refused to display any available wireless networks. > > Clearly there is something in my installation that is goobering up > Network Manager and making it not work the way it does with the live CD > of Jaunty. Sadly, I am not smart enough to figure out what it is. > However, I *am* smart enough to know how to install wicd. As a side > benefit, once I reinstall wicd I can get rid of that annoying > notification area in the Gnome panel. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > It seemed to be some weird transient issue as wireless works fine now. I had created a wireless profile using the network manager and it would not work, I don't broadcast my SSID so when I chose "connect to hidden network" and selected "new" instead of the already created profile it started working fine and has worked fine since *shrug*. Compiz has been causing some issues with X locking up the entire machine and forcing a power reset but I believe it was because I had loaded too many plugins just playing around. I have pared them down significantly and it hasn't locked up so far. I am using an integrated Intel graphics chip which seems to have it's own quirks with Compiz, so I'm not blaming Ubuntu itself. I admit, I have been staying away from Ubuntu releases and their ilk until now but figured it was worthwhile to give it a try. I am impressed. It does boot quite fast and other then the weird installation procedure (weird to me) it seems pretty spiffy. Now maybe I can help answer list questions now that I know what the hell the tools and such are called :) Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
