If you're weird like me, you like the thought of doing all your work through the terminal. So I got an inexpensive Chromebook where I hoped to set it up to boot to terminal and nothing else.
After following these directions (dual boot ubuntu on chromebook) to install the no desktop (minimal) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my ARM processor Samsung Chromebook I encountered a problem with connecting to the Internet. Here is my current solution.
Before running sudo bash s9ryd ubuntu-standard lts, add these lines to the s9ryd script:
apt-get -y install wpasupplicant
apt-get -y install wireless-tools
at the end of the block where other installs are being made. This allows you to run certain commands that are necessary to set up the wireless connection.
After installing Ubuntu, run this set of commands in sudo:
ifconfig mlan0 up
wpa_passphrase ESSID KEY > /home/user/.wpa.conf
wpa_supplicant -imlan0 -c/home/user/.wpa.conf -Dwext -B
dhclient -r
dhclient mlan0
where ESSID is the network name and KEY is its password. I wrote a little bash script that included these lines. The problem is that I have to run it each time I turn on the computer. I'm still looking for a better solution.
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