[aklug] Re: Projectors and Secure Wifi

It is wrong to assume that plugging into a projector just works. In the past this has never worked well for me. If at all. It looks like things are changing.

As I said before, Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex connected to the projector and worked. No extra configuration on my part.

----- Original Message -----
From: bryanm@acsalaska.net
To: aklug@aklug.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 12:05:23 AM GMT -09:00 Alaska
Subject: [aklug] Re: Projectors and Secure Wifi

On Tue, November 4, 2008 10:50 am, Damien Hull wrote:
> Yesterday I connected a laptop running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex to a projector. It
> worked! Then I was asked to connect it to a secured Wifi access point for net
> access. I was worried that it wouldn't work. I was very surprised when it
> connected after I typed in the pass phrase.
>
> In the past secure wifi was out of the question for most Linux users.
> Projectors were also a pin. It seems that the Ubuntu developers are including
> the necessary tools to do both.

I had been assuming that plugging into a projector would "just work"
regardless of OS. Am I wrong?

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