Ebony's Pearls

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop a year or more ago, and had some issues getting it to have sound and to connect to the internet in any form. I resolved those issues, finally, and can connect in some places with some degree of reliability, but the wireless home network we installed a month or so ago?

It keeps asking me for the keyring password, and I've done some extensive internet searches, wandered through the Ubuntu forums, read a couple of Ubuntu manuals for clueless n00bs like me, and now I know what a keyring is.

I have no idea why I have this program as I refuse to store passwords anywhere but inside my brain. I currently remember the passwords for all the programs on my work computer, home desk top, laptop, email accounts, blogs, PayPal account, wikis, food coop, and other programs and accounts and I have no problem with doing that all inside my brain. I change passwords on all of them every month, and no 2 passwords are identical. I use 8 different languages, will randomly l33t them, and switch similar consonants and vowels so it isn't spelled normally, and then add in random numbers and allowed symbols here and there for fun. I don't need a keyring to manage all of this when I have a perfectly good brain.

In spite of knowing what a keyring is, I still have no clue what the password is or what to do when it pops up on my screen demanding a keyring password so I can connect to the wireless internet inside my own house. I don't recall ever putting a password in it, and I've never seen the pop-up until I started trying to use our home wireless internet.

Sometimes, it lets me connect, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it teases me by connecting then suddenly losing connection.

I've read instructions for disabling the keyring, and I've looked at programs dealing with the keyring, but it's all gibberish to me.

The internet is no help to someone as clueless as me - they all assume I speak Programmer and am much geekier than I am. I'm an informed user, and for the most part, that's where I'd like to stay, thank you. I know enough computer-speak to follow along when people are talking, and I'm decent at searching the web and I'm not at all afraid to use the Help feature in any program. I just would like the Help feature to be, you know - helpful to folks like me - old, cranky, competent non-geeks who don't speak nm_333.112/44^7-a005_lib - whatever that is.

I think I will pay a visit to Techies tomorrow and whine and plead and pay them cold hard cash to help me deal with this issue.