two great tastes that go great together
Ubuntu and wireless capability. when i got my lappy last year, i didn't look into the wireless card maker. which of course meant i ended up with a card manufacturer that wasn't compatible with most linux distros, Broadcom. i tried a couple of utilities when i set up the dual boot with Ubuntu, fwcutter and ndiswrapper, and had about 5 minutes of success with fwcutter, but then never got anything else, so i was stuck in M$ land.
until Hardy Heron, the newest version of Ubuntu. with school out, i started sticking my schnozz in the other places that i found interesting when i found the time and booted up the Ubuntu partition Monday. it told me that an upgrade was available and so after a few hours, i finally came across something that said wireless wasn't enabled. i chuckled, cause i knew that was cause wireless wasn't an option. i clicked the option to enable it. it prompted me to download the firmware (the main problem the first time around), proprietary stuff Broadcom writes to make their card work with the OS, and then HH implemented a newer version of fwcutter i think and sure enough, i had wireless. this is pretty darn cool.
now, i have to get accustomed to using the console and command line more. in one of my last classes, we used R, a statistics program and in windows, there is a handy-dandy gui. i'm kind of perplexed on how i'll get graphs and stuff out of a command line version. and there are other little utilities i was used to in M$, like the notepad. i know there is something in linux, but with all the editors, i don't know if i'm using something too complicated for just jotting down ideas. and then there is the directory structure. i still don't have that down yet and trying to figure out where to install new apps, and get them in places so that they're easy to access, is challenging.
until Hardy Heron, the newest version of Ubuntu. with school out, i started sticking my schnozz in the other places that i found interesting when i found the time and booted up the Ubuntu partition Monday. it told me that an upgrade was available and so after a few hours, i finally came across something that said wireless wasn't enabled. i chuckled, cause i knew that was cause wireless wasn't an option. i clicked the option to enable it. it prompted me to download the firmware (the main problem the first time around), proprietary stuff Broadcom writes to make their card work with the OS, and then HH implemented a newer version of fwcutter i think and sure enough, i had wireless. this is pretty darn cool.
now, i have to get accustomed to using the console and command line more. in one of my last classes, we used R, a statistics program and in windows, there is a handy-dandy gui. i'm kind of perplexed on how i'll get graphs and stuff out of a command line version. and there are other little utilities i was used to in M$, like the notepad. i know there is something in linux, but with all the editors, i don't know if i'm using something too complicated for just jotting down ideas. and then there is the directory structure. i still don't have that down yet and trying to figure out where to install new apps, and get them in places so that they're easy to access, is challenging.