[22:16] <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] <pleia2> things are looking really good :)
[22:22] <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 :\
[22:23] <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
[22:25] <akk> ah
[22:26] <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
[22:27] <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
[22:29] <akk> Yeah, it's sad seeing the new trend toward laptops with no wired ethernet.
[22:30] <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
[22:31] <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
[22:32] <akk> I just put a couple of usb wifi dongles in my laptop bag after a vacation where I had no net access
[22:33] <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
[22:34] <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
[22:35] <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)