My OperaExperiment: Ubuntu 8.04 on a compaq F763NR
Friday, June 6, 2008 3:23:25 AM
My 77 year old father-in-law has recently taken to reading online news on an old 800Mhz dell with a tiny screen.
For his birthday we picked up a possibly refurbed HP/compaq notebook.
These are my notes on our experience.
1st night. I called for the recovery media knowing I could do it myself but support insists I make my own recovery media. I start the wizard... and it takes a really long time to ask for a blank.
Friday. Hong finished burning the restore DVDs. I installed ubuntu 8.04 which was painless.
And now the problems begin.
Atheros AR5007 will not connect to my FON
GeForce 7000M is not working with X
ethernet cant pass any traffic through my mac.
Every other device I've ever patched directly into my mac has gone right through.
I can ssh into my mac from ubuntu but that's it. irritating!
Saturday I am going to try two things.
Look at this
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679
and try some random nvidia garbage I downloaded
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.05-pkg2.run
I doubt I will be able to abandon FreeBSD for Ubuntu but for family members its ease of use is perfect.
For his birthday we picked up a possibly refurbed HP/compaq notebook.
These are my notes on our experience.
1st night. I called for the recovery media knowing I could do it myself but support insists I make my own recovery media. I start the wizard... and it takes a really long time to ask for a blank.
Friday. Hong finished burning the restore DVDs. I installed ubuntu 8.04 which was painless.
And now the problems begin.
Atheros AR5007 will not connect to my FON
GeForce 7000M is not working with X
ethernet cant pass any traffic through my mac.
Every other device I've ever patched directly into my mac has gone right through.
I can ssh into my mac from ubuntu but that's it. irritating!
Saturday I am going to try two things.
Look at this
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679
and try some random nvidia garbage I downloaded
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.05-pkg2.run
I doubt I will be able to abandon FreeBSD for Ubuntu but for family members its ease of use is perfect.
