Monday, November 14, 2011

Wireless on Ubuntu 11.10 and Mint 12

Ubuntu 11.10 has managed to make the wireless internet on my laptop not work. They're great at introducing bugs that never get fixed: this is the only distro with that problem, and I try a lot of distros. The bug carried through to Mint 12 RC, which is of course built on top of Ubuntu 11.10.

I had to install wicd and completely remove network-manager. If you don't remove network-manager, you will get a "Connection Failed: Bad Password" error from wicd if you're using WPA2.

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