I could try, but he's practically never home...

Is it possible to share the connection from Ubuntu desktop or Xubuntu netbook with my Pi? Via ethernet.

Bump.

I'm also getting the "could not get status from wpa_supplicant" message in the WPA GUI, if that is relevant at all.

Right! So first off, today I received all the things I needed to get my Pi up and running. And it is! :D I'm running the Raspbian hard-float version. My problem is this: I can't get my D-link DWA-140 to work. I bought this USB dongle because it was on the list of dongles that worked. Well, problem i...