reflecting
Normally I am not a fan of Internet memes; however, in the spirit of reflecting on the year-that-was I’ll answer these questions I saw over at my sister’s livejournal.
Normally I am not a fan of Internet memes; however, in the spirit of reflecting on the year-that-was I’ll answer these questions I saw over at my sister’s livejournal.
Over the holiday weekend I took my old Sony VAIO notebook and loaded Ubuntu Linux on it. As a desktop / end-user distro I’m very impressed with Ubuntu - it is easy to use and configure. Unfortunately, I had some trouble getting my wireless card to work with WPA2 authentication to my wireless network at home. From looking at the Ubuntu forums it seems like this is a common problem. There are some helpful guides; however, none I found covered how to use WPA2 Pre-Shared Key authentication specifically. Fortunately by reading the man pages and some trial and error I was able to get it working.
Here are the steps:
Now on to the fun of configuring wpa_supplicant to handle the WPA2 authentication for the interface.
network={
ssid=”myssid”
proto=WPA2
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=”mypsk”
}
OPTIONS=”-i wlan0 -D ndiswrapper -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf”
# The primary network interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant start
pre-up sleep 5
This leaves you with a wlan0 interface that will start automatically, is configured via DHCP, and prior to bringing the interface up the system will start wpa_supplicant to handle the WPA2 authentication so the card can associate with your WLAN.
I found the following to be helpful resources in getting it working:
Hopefully this is helpful to anyone else who is struggling to get it working.
Last Sunday we had the opportunity to see our friends Erin and Nate act in Stark Raving Theater’s 2nd annual Cold Comedy Concoction. It is made up of four one-act comedies which were all quite funny. In case a night of comedy isn’t enough to pique your interest in local theater it is worth noting that one of the plays features some boobies - so get out and support Portland theater. You won’t be disappointed.
The show runs through January 14th.
One of the things I like about living in Oregon is that there is an abundance of parks and other natural sites to visit and enjoy. Heather and I spent a relaxing weekend in Seaside and since we were there we figured we would check out Fort Clatsop since it was only a short drive away. Since neither of us are native Oregonians we figured it would be neat to learn more about Lewis & Clark. The Fort (a replica) was destroyed by fire in October so our visit ended up being rather unremarkable. It is odd that the National Park Service neglects to point this out on their web site - my advice would be to skip it altogether since the attraction is gone.