[ale] ubuntu IMAP does't work, neither does wireless

[George Allen]

Ubuntu has been systematically ticking me off the past year or so. I
switched to wicd after 10.04 b/c NetworkManager wanted total control
over everything - and wouldn't gracefully die when I wanted to kill it
and do stuff like "ip a add..." or "ip r add/del"

Plus wicd has a curses client. :) I like curses.

I still have had issues since 10.10 with my wireless dis-associating
from my AP every 10 minutes. I haven't decided if this is an issue
with 10.10, or with the Clear hockey-puck AP I'm running off of... my
guess is I need to go replace the firmware in /lib/... when I get a
chance.

Might check the firmware yourself for wireless issues.

What I'm more frustrated with over all is the general macishness that
Ubuntu is turning into - ie mac's have an /etc ... but you really have
to stay out of it and use the gui. I'm about to either go back to
debian or maybe even try out fedora or go back to debian. Although
I've always hated anything not apt/deb.


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 11/03/2010 04:53 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> now on to ubuntu... wireless doesn't work, couldn't connect to my
>> router. so I installed wicd. tha always worked before. THis time, nada.
>> says bad password. boot to XP, connects fine.
>
> Can you provide more info than "couldn't connect"? At what point does it
> fail?  Maybe there is some information in /var/log/daemon.log from when
> you were trying to connect via NetworkManager?
>
>> I was trying to setup an IMAP account back to my desktop, but it also
>> times out, no connection, as does ssh. ssh worked in windows, so I'm
>> thinking iptables maybe? on my debian desktop, kern.log & messages both
>> show an entry for my laptop where I tried to ssh, something about
>> Inbound... SRC=my_ip, DST=debian IP.... so I'm not getting it..
>
> So you're trying to ssh from your Ubuntu 10.10 laptop to your Debian
> desktop and it doesn't work? Add the -v argument so ssh and see what it
> reports.
>
> What are your iptables rules in Debian? YOu say you see entries int he
> logs when you try to connect, but what have you told iptables to log?
> Allowed connections? Dropped connections? Something else?
>
> Do you have the same IP address when you boot Windows and when you boot
> Ubuntu on the laptop?
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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