debugging brain.d

I spent the better part of two hours in trying to get my WLAN working again. My router worked flawlessly, winking ironically with it's LEDs, a hardwired XP box was running perfectly, and a ThinkPad (XP again) had no wireless problems. But with the second ThinkPad, boasting Xubuntu, I had no chance to get that wireless working again. I went through countless cycles of reentering my random-generated, super-secure and completely unmemorisable WPA keys, resetting login keyrings, setting up static IPs, trying DHCP, editing config files, pinging around and so on.

From a certain point on, I seemed to gain a foothold and started taking notes to put them on the blog. Some heavy editing on those notes leaves an important lesson for setting up your WPA secured network: