JeevesBond — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:54:04 +0000

rtroxel wrote: Interesting - and thanks. Is this a business of yours?

No, not at all. It's just Canonical, the business behind Ubuntu. It probably costs them money to send you a CD.

rtroxel wrote: It arrived today. Thanks again.

Fantastic! Hope it works for you.

rtroxel — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:57:51 +0000

Quote: Done, it's on its way.

It arrived today. Thanks again.

rtroxel — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:10:54 +0000

Interesting - and thanks. Is this a business of yours?

JeevesBond — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:53:51 +0000

rtroxel wrote: Well, if you want to send me the CD I won't argue

Done, it's on its way.

Anyone else interested in getting CDs should look at: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

rtroxel — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:45:14 +0000

Quote: I had a look on your site and was tempted to just send you a CD anyway, but thought I should ask permission first: you'll probably be able to download it.

Well, if you want to send me the CD I won't argue. Actually, the PC I want to use won't take DVDs anyway.

JeevesBond — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:12:15 +0000

rtroxel wrote: I don't know what "Feisty" is

Whoops, sorry! That's the daft name of the last Ubuntu release, I believe you're using Dapper (?) Indeed it has been a matter of waiting, but (unless I'm wrong: these things do happen) the drivers you need should be in Ubuntu Feisty.

You can get it from: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download or they can send a CD to your address. To download, you want the option selected by default, that's (under desktop edition): 'Ubuntu 7.04 - Supported to 2008' That's Feisty.

I had a look on your site and was tempted to just send you a CD anyway, but thought I should ask permission first: you'll probably be able to download it.

rtroxel — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:38:12 +0000

Quote: rtroxel, sorry for taking a while to get back to you. This person has definitely setup the same card as yours under Feisty, from searching around it seems the drivers for your card have only been made available recently. It seems you're going to need to upgrade. If you follow those instructions, don't think you need to worry about the 'wicd' stuff, basically skip to step 4. If you really want 'wicd' tell me and I'll help you set it up (the instructions don't seem to be correct anymore: their FAQ has disappeared).

Thanks. I don't know what "Feisty" is, but I'm willing to learn. I guess this has all been a matter of waiting until the proper drivers are available.

Quote: Or we could go through getting Windows XP drivers to work through ndiswrapper. That will be hard work though!

A friend of mine suggested this recently, although he hadn't actually tried it.

JeevesBond — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:23:25 +0000

Good.Things wrote: Most likely the issue has to do with the encryption and security settings.

Nah, as I said, it was because the router shipped with rubbish firmware. I checked and there were numerous complaints about it from users of all operating systems. A few updates later and it's behaving itself now.

rtroxel, sorry for taking a while to get back to you. This person has definitely setup the same card as yours under Feisty, from searching around it seems the drivers for your card have only been made available recently. It seems you're going to need to upgrade. If you follow those instructions, don't think you need to worry about the 'wicd' stuff, basically skip to step 4. If you really want 'wicd' tell me and I'll help you set it up (the instructions don't seem to be correct anymore: their FAQ has disappeared).

Or we could go through getting Windows XP drivers to work through ndiswrapper. That will be hard work though!

tmonaghan — Sun, 13 May 2007 10:25:46 +0000

Well, I downloaded Ubunto Studio 7.04 and tried the install. It recognises my wireless card (as do other versions of Ubuntu), but because I have WEP encryption set up there is no web access so the install takes a long time, timing out while trying to access the internet and eventually completes.

This is the only Ubuntu distro I've come across where I can't configure the wireless card manually with any success so no internet access. Despite choosing 1280x1024 as my preferred resolution it will only run at a max 1024x768 so no compatible Nvidia drivers then, again unlike other distros.

So far it doesn't seem to offer anything different from other music / audio distros except maybe what they've done to the kernel. I don't think I'll bother exploring it any further.

Not a good experience so far, it seems at first glance to be a poorly thought out distro. Installing any Ubuntu distro should be simple and straightforward, not so this effort. I'll stick with Studio to Go.

rtroxel — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:13:00 +0000

Quote: What was the make/ model of your wireless card again?

Th card is a Linksys WMP54G 802.11g

The router is a Linksys WRT55AG.