Friday, April 3, 2015

How to set up Wireless Networking in Ubuntu on the commandline

How to set up Wireless Networking in Ubuntu on the commandline  

Network Management under Ubuntu seems to be a complete pig's ear nowadays. I upgraded my laptop from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS, and all manner of things b0rked :-( ...

I bravely proceeded to upgrade to 14.04LTS in the hope that it wall all magically get fixed... 

WRONG! :-/ 

Can *anyone* make head or tail of network-manager, avahi, all the *dm's and daemons / services / upstart processes / ??? now? 

I give up... 

Turned off the networking with the GUI, resorted to the good ol' commandline; see How to set up Wireless Networking in Ubuntu on the commandline for some details. 

It works! 

This has me in a(nother) minimalist mood.