Comments on: Wi-Fi Problems with CloudBook

By: gork

gork — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:36:02 +0000

Network Manager has issues at times. I suggest looking into wicd before doing it manually. You’ll save ALOT of headaches.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:19:29 +0000

Did all of you go to lunch? The entire frikkin WWW is waiting for updates!!

By: Piton

Piton — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:53:10 +0000

I’m really about this thing but gOS is a deal braker for me. I think I’ll go for eee.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:07:53 +0000

Yes, Gnome Network-Manager in Ubuntu has always had and continues to have major problems with WEP encryption. Do a search of the Ubuntu forums for “WEP” and you’ll see the number of complaints. As far as I can tell, the only solution is to get rid of Network-Manager and use WPA supplicant on the command line. I’d like to see the “masses” at whom this computer is directed do that.

When I heard that Everex was ditching Elightenment for Gnome, I thought to myself, this is going to be a real last-minute hack-job. Really, the only way to go, it seems, is to do a lot of careful, in-house customization (e.g., the EEE PC’s reconfiguration of Xandros).

Just slapping GNOME onto the laptop as is = recipe for disaster.

By: ant

ant — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:02:59 +0000

Looks good, interesting to see the full gnome menu at the top.

What wireless security options does it show? I know I connect to my wpa network on my ubuntu Eee PC without actually -selecting- wpa… odd, but works.

By: tehChad

tehChad — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:51:27 +0000

In regular ubuntu under System>Administration>Network is where you can configure your wireless. I could never get roaming mode to work with WEP; maybe that’s the same problem you’re having. Manual configuration should fix it.