Ok, I tried the suggestions given. Removed network-manager, network-manager-gnome, wifi-radar and wpasuplicant to boot. i noticed that removing wpasupplicant also removes two dependancies. re-booted. Installed netowrk-manager, which, all by it self, loaded wpasuplicant as a dependancy, but I noted it made no mention of the the two dependacies wpasuplicant mentioned on removal. then installed network-manager-gnome.
I set my keys in System > Administration > Networking >
then WEP, reboot, nada. WPA, reboot, nada. WPA2, reboot, nada. WPA-auto, nada. i thought that maybe sudo dhclient would work like ipconfig/release /renew, but if the wire is in, then it only picks up eth0 and stops. i know because I reset everything to nakid as a jay bird and tried it. In retrospect, I should have tried yanking the wire then sudo dhclient, but at that point I was so frustrated I just yanked and rebooted and I'm back, wireless and unsecured.
was network-manager-gnome supposed to give me something I could see? Because the only place I can find to change my settings is System > Administration > Networking. That is why I was excited about wifi-radar. At least I could see something and change the settings and pick the incription.
some one throw me a bone so I don't feel so usless. Like how you add those pictures to your name when you post. That should be easy enought that i can do it, even if it isn't Ubuntu. Also, I like to listen to streaming audio while I work. The one and only time i loaded the Ubuntu version of realplayer it barely worked and the built in movie player gets track information (or in my case news copy) but can not decode the audio. Anyone got a link for me to get me on the right path?
and finally, I remember that all of the suggestions here were information on how to load wpa-suplicant. Synaptics loaded wpasuplicant. Is this the same package, renamed? Or do I have to load a different one? I tried going back in the thread to pages 30-40 and didn't find it. I guess I have to go through the whole thing again, but before I do, am I backing up the wrong tree?
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