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Subject: David Welton -- Ubuntu Intrepid Regression: Beware of Wireless and WPA
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:11:55 +0100 (CET)

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/13/ubuntu-intrepid-regression-beware-of-wireless-and-wpa

David Welton -- Ubuntu Intrepid Regression: Beware of Wireless and
WPA

A lot of people, myself included as of the upgrade I did last
night, seem to be having trouble using certain wireless chipsets
with WPA:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/wpasupplic
ant/+bug/272185[1]

There are a lot of people following this one, and you have to
think that for every person who looked it up, googled it, and dug
around to find that page, registered with the site, and so on,
there are several more who simply gave up and went back to Windows
or something.

I thought a couple of weeks was probably a good amount of time for
the bugs to be shaken out of Intrepid, but I thought wrong.

Here is a set of search terms[2] that can be used to look through
"regression-potential" bugs, which if I'm not mistaken, ought to
mean those things that worked in previous versions of Ubuntu but
now no longer work. In my case, there's an extra little bit of
annoyance because I am running on a Dell laptop that I bought with
Ubuntu preinstalled, and you'd think the Ubuntu guys would have a
few sitting around to do some testing with prior to release.

I spent some time digging around in the code for the network
manager, wpasupplicant, and a brief look at the kernel code, but
there was nothing that made much sense, so I guess I'll just have
to wait for the fix like everyone else... wish I could help,
somehow, though.

07:40pm[3] by David N. Welton

Links:
1. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/272185
2. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=intrepid&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.importance%3Alist=CRITICAL&field.importance%3Alist=HIGH&field.importance%3Alist=MEDIUM&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervisor=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_cve.used=&field.tag=regression-potential&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_no_package.used=
3. http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/13/ubuntu-intrepid-regression-beware-of-wireless-and-wpa

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