[ale] Ubuntu woes

[Jim Popovitch]

Brian D. Pitts wrote:
> The first thing I do after I install Ubuntu on a laptop is install 
> network-manager-gnome, which enables switching between wired and 
> wireless networks with ease. It even uses wpasupplicant to handle 802.1X 
> with aplomb.

NetworkManger is what is causing me (and many others it seems) problems. 
  I can user wifi and eth0 fine without NM, but NM can't use wifi. 
Switching back and forth (by adding/removing interfaces from 
/etc/network/interfaces) is a big waste of time too.  I went through 2 
fsck checks (60+ reboots) in figuring out that it was NM not the wifi 
card that was giving me problems.  I will add that to make my wifi card 
work I had to iwpriv it to only use 802.11b.... and that is something I 
suspect NM can't do.  Also, when using NM I get about 2MB of log files 
each hour from wpa_suplicant complaining about every other AP if finds 
and doesn't have an encryption key for (regardless of the fact that I am 
not trying to use those other APs).

-Jim P.