Saturday, May 03, 2008
Latest Release of Ubuntu ...
Loaded the latest rev (8.04 LTS) of Ubuntu on my P-O-S laptop. I don't know why everyone raves about Ubuntu, I still need to tinker with it just like any other distro I've used. No worse than any other ... but no better.
First I had to deal with only 640x480 resolution and a screwed up color map. Fortunately I keep a working xorg.conf on my usb key, once that was replaced I was back to 1024x768 15 bits. ( yes I said 15 bits don't ask it just works)
Then I needed to hack out the network connection ... again not a surprise since my wlan card is a bit of an oddball. While I didn't need to compile the kernel modules like I usually do it still didn't work correctly. The module loads, get set with the KEY and SSID ... but it doesn't work .. seems as if it's deaf. To get it to work I need to unload the module reinsert and configure the card by hand. I'm probably going to turn off network manager in favor of a simple shell script.
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 7:50 AM