Re: wireless connectivity

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:55:04AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
On 08/26/2010 05:58 AM, Chris G wrote:
...
I have to agree about the bewildering choices. When wireless doesn't
work (for whatever reason) it's *incredibly* difficult to diagnose
what's wrong.

Is there a HowTo anywhere that really walks through the whole WiFi
setup because I have looked and found little step by step diagnosis.
One can find fixes for specific problems but nothing that says 'step 1
- do this', 'if x happens then step 2 - do that' etc.

As it is I haven't a clue what to do in several different cases:-

1 - Nothing useful seems to happen, even though I know there's a
wireless network in the vicinity.

2 - It tells me there's a wireless network, I have a 'key' but
haven't a clue what sort of key it is (this is a very common
situation and the network 'owner' very rarely has a clue what to
do)

3 - What the 'network' applet in the panel is *supposed* to do, is
this documented anywhere?


Perhaps?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide

Yes, looks useful, thank you.

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Chris Green

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