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The Sorry State of WiFi Support with Feisty Beta

Posted by gsh on · 8 comments
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I have been keeping up with most of the reviews for the new beta release of Ubuntu Feisty with great interest. As a full-time user of Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy, I’m, to say the least, "comfortable" in all aspects of getting the most from my Linux experience.

When I first burned a copy of the new beta ISO, I was looking forward to completing what I was hoping to be a glowing review, despite the expectation of a few minor bugs. What I found instead, was a show-stopping issue for a large number of Ubuntu notebook users. I could hardly believe it.

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Comments (8)

Iain ·
I have been using a Ralink rt2500 card for a year now on a WPA-encrypted wireless network. You would have thought they would have made configuring this easy in a GUI by now. Instead they have broken it completely!
helios ·
Come on Lain...you aren't talking about Ubuntu, you can't be. Ubuntu is Number one on DW.com and EVERYONE knows it is the best distro for the new Linux user. They couldn't have made this simple of a mistake.

LOL...my guess is that it will be fixed within 72 hours. Those guys don't respond well to "constructive" criticism, trust me on this one.

The latest Mepis picked it right up. I have the same card. In what Laptop are you using it?
tuxchick ·
Feisty is still in Beta, and is intended to be bleeding-edge anyway. As much as I get bored with the ubunuts acting like they invented Linux, we don't need to be unfair. Not all the time, anyway.
jimf ·
> we don't need to be unfair

Party pooper :(
tuxchick ·
Jim, I did say 'not all the time.' Just pick your time. Honor system, no one is keeping track!
jimf ·
Kidding you TC :D
tuxchick ·
Metoo. Hahahaa, I am keeping track!!!!!!
Iain ·
It turns out this is because I made some changes to /etc/network/interfaces in order to get WPA working and network manager could not keep up. I don't know if WPA is supported by network manager.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-April/02...

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