That is extremely bizarre.... Did you use the same disk image that was successful before? I know you said the md5sum checked out... but it is odd that you should get something so different.
You can check to see if wpa-supplicant is installed (I am pretty sure that is the name). I am kinda out of ideas right now... I have been crunching my brain about the sound issue for PPC and finally figured out what to do :) On 05/07/2014 09:38 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 05/07/2014 07:50 PM, Israel wrote: >> Did you test this Dongle with Ubuntu Studio 14.04 (or one of the >> other respins?) >> Did you say that those dongles worked on *some* machines with 14.04 >> but not the other machines? >> If that is the case... my initial guess is it could possibly be the USB. >> If it works on some machines... they may have a USB 2.0 port and you >> are using a USB 2.0 Dongle >> It wont work on another machine because it has a USB 1.0 port, and >> the dongle needs more juice to work right.. > Israel: > > On the machine it failed on, all of the USB ports are USB 2.0. > > On the machines it worked on, it was always in a USB 2.0 port. > > It worked on Lubuntu 14.04, UbuntuStudio 14.04, and Xubuntu 14.04 > (even on my slow 450 megahertz machine). > > I remembered the HP Mini needed the b43 installer package, so I booted > the Live USB on a machine with an ethernet connection, and installed > the b43 package. > > Later, I booted the USB on the HP Mini, and it seemed to see the > internal wireless, and on clicking on it in some way, I got it to show > wireless networks in-range, but on clicking on my network (and > entering the wireless encryption key), it did not connect. > > The software asking for the wireless encryption key is different from > what I have been using before. On the one I have been successfully > using, it has a check-box to have it display what I am typing. This > different tool does not. > > I am thinking it is assuming WPA, and has no way to configure WEP, so > it just doesn't work. But why would it be using a different network > configuration tool than what I used before? > > When I select from the menu, System...Network Settings, I get a little > window with just "General", "DNS", and "Hosts" tabs. I have never > seen this before. In those tabs, I don't see anything I could use to > set up my wireless configuration. > > This is not making sense to me. I will try booting the live CD in one > of the machines it worked on before and try the same dongle again. > -- > Sincerely, > Aere -- Regards
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