I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2. Seriously... every install I've done since Jaunty has taken me literally HOURS to get network connectivity to behave - first because my wired network is configured in /etc/network/interfaces as "manual" so KNetworkManager can't see it, and then because wireless won't connect to my AP (128-bit WEP, shared key, using a string instead of hex), and last because I don't know how the heck to get it so that I have a network connection before anyone's logged in!
Eventually I remember to edit /etc/network/interfaces, and then eventually I remember that I need to enter the WEP key in hex (even though it claims string will work)... but I've never found a solution for this one.
Think of it like this: *ubuntu has become kinda synonymous with "desktop Linux" these days. Stuff like networking being broken "out of the box" is part of why people keep talking like "wait, no, *this* is the year of the Linux desktop...!" Until a clean install Just Works(tm) for the vast majority of people, it ain't that year yet.
(All that said, this is IMHO one of the only things left preventing that...)
I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2. Seriously... every install I've done since Jaunty has taken me literally HOURS to get network connectivity to behave - first because my wired network is configured in /etc/network/ interfaces as "manual" so KNetworkManager can't see it, and then because wireless won't connect to my AP (128-bit WEP, shared key, using a string instead of hex), and last because I don't know how the heck to get it so that I have a network connection before anyone's logged in!
Eventually I remember to edit /etc/network/ interfaces, and then eventually I remember that I need to enter the WEP key in hex (even though it claims string will work)... but I've never found a solution for this one.
Think of it like this: *ubuntu has become kinda synonymous with "desktop Linux" these days. Stuff like networking being broken "out of the box" is part of why people keep talking like "wait, no, *this* is the year of the Linux desktop...!" Until a clean install Just Works(tm) for the vast majority of people, it ain't that year yet.
(All that said, this is IMHO one of the only things left preventing that...)