Wireless networking on Gnome on Ubuntu 9 / 10
- by WaveyDavey
So here's my problem: I have some netbooks (ASUS eee, and ACER Aspire Ones) that I've been tasked to set up as kiosk machines, locked up tight
for normal users.
I am a command-line, server man, so this gnome malarkey is all a bit new to me.
I found a lovely 9.04 kiosk livecd that installs and runs exactly as I want it to, but I can't get the wireless working.
So I dropped on a full 10.4 distro, and wireless works straight out of the box (so hardware is good) - all I needed to do was right-click
on the network connection icon, enter my SSID and password (WPA/WPA2) and away it went, perfect.
Further investigation on 10.4 distro shows that /etc/networking/interfaces is virtually empty (just
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
in it), even after I have set up the wireless thru the gnome taskbar applet (is that the right word?).
So where does gnome / ubuntu store the network settings to bring the blasted wireless connection up, and what do I need to
do on the kiosk version to get wireless running?
