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Thread ID: 114617 2010-12-10 06:55:00 Ubuntu - USB Wireless-G Dongle Myth (110) Press F1
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1160439 2010-12-13 03:40:00 and Windows is what keeps technicians employed.

Anyway, created a lil script to run on boot which restarts networking, seems to work a treat. Just gotta sort WEP
(network is already MAC filtered, would prefer WEP for that lil extra)
Myth (110)
1160440 2010-12-13 06:20:00 wicd is a nice DE agnostic network manager fred_fish (15241)
1160441 2010-12-13 07:54:00 wicd is a nice DE agnostic network managerBrilliant !!

Thank you, all working 100%
Myth (110)
1160442 2010-12-13 09:32:00 ^ And this ladies and gentleman, is why the world prefers Windows!.......LOL

Not really a fair comment - the main reason there are problems with wireless in Linux is that the manufacturers change the chipset and leave the model name the same. One week a known card or USB device will work - then the chipset changes to some obscure one that no longer works. I have tried asking the importer to tell me which chipset a particular card will have and they cannot.
johnd (85)
1160443 2010-12-13 19:08:00 ... case in point the USB dongle I bought. Depending on which version it is, depends on which driver is to be installed. Some work straight out of the box, others require that certain other drivers are blacklisted before they will load (conflicts). For all the research I tried to do before it arrived, that all went out the window because of the version number Myth (110)
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