| pleia2 | finally just used adb to set my ridiculous wifi password, so I was able to get on my wifi and upgrade my nexus7 | 22:16 |
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| pleia2 | things are looking really good :) | 22:16 |
| akk | You did this because it doesn't keep an existing connection open when you connect with adb? | 22:22 |
| pleia2 | akk: I don't understand the question :\ | 22:22 |
| akk | Isn't there normally a gui on tablets for setting wifi password? I was trying to figure out why you'd need to use adb. | 22:23 |
| pleia2 | oh, there's a bug for long passwords https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1445630 | 22:23 |
| darthrobot | Title: [Bug #1445630 “Can't connect to Wifi network secured with long PS...” : Bugs : Canonical System Image] | 22:23 |
| pleia2 | so it doesn't work through the gui | 22:23 |
| akk | ah | 22:25 |
| pleia2 | on most devices I just tether through my phone for a minute so I can grab the wifi password in email and copy/paste, but that doesn't work either https://launchpad.net/bugs/1454416 | 22:26 |
| darthrobot | [R: bugs.launchpad.net] Title: [Bug #1454416 “WiFi connect dialog does not allow pasting of pass...” : Bugs : unity8 package : Ubuntu] | 22:26 |
| pleia2 | so adb was my only option | 22:26 |
| ianorlin | I like how ethernet just works | 22:26 |
| ianorlin | even with my like 10 year old pci card | 22:27 |
| ianorlin | on a desktop I built last year | 22:27 |
| ianorlin | althuogh showing better speedtests than other people with that is a little rude | 22:27 |
| akk | Yeah, it's sad seeing the new trend toward laptops with no wired ethernet. | 22:29 |
| akk | For ubuntu/debian installs sometimes that's been the only option for me. | 22:30 |
| ianorlin | also then you can't set up bridge utils from a working laptop with wifi and plug an ehternet cord to a working laptop with wifi if it needs the stupid broadcom blob | 22:30 |
| ianorlin | it actully worked | 22:31 |
| akk | Right, exactly. | 22:31 |
| akk | It's still all too common to have laptops where the wifi doesn't work right in the installer. | 22:31 |
| ianorlin | I keep an ancient usb wifi that is b/g around because it works with kernel | 22:31 |
| akk | I just put a couple of usb wifi dongles in my laptop bag after a vacation where I had no net access | 22:32 |
| akk | because the latest linux driver for my broadcom chip couldn't talk to the hotel's WEP (who uses WEP these days? answer: hotels in the Utah boonies) | 22:33 |
| ianorlin | I had the broadcom driver flood my ttys with stupid messages for several months until an update fixed it | 22:33 |
| akk | At that hotel, attempting to connect to the WEP wifi turned off the chip at the level where rfkill said it was both hard and soft blocked | 22:34 |
| akk | but couldn't un-block it | 22:34 |
| akk | and even rebooting didn't fix that, it was still rfkill blocked | 22:35 |
| akk | but I finally tried rebooting into a distro with an earlier kernel, and that unblocked it (it still didn't connect, though) | 22:35 |
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