"Crappy Cow" (Re: [Novalug] Ubuntu problems (2))

[Roger W. Broseus]

Bonnie:

I futzed around with trying to "upgrade" to "Fawn" for a long time last
night - on my laptop - and finally gave up and started from scratch -
keeping stuff on /home on a backup drive - and repartioning! I do keep a
separate /home for just the situation you encountered.

Now I wish I had not bothered: I don't see the beauty of Fawn - not enuf
to have gone thru the bother. So, you might consider dropping back to a
less bleeding-edge version - 6.10 is pretty nice.

One reviewer's comment: "Feisty Fawn" indeed. I think "Crappy Cow" is more
like it.
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS8603142728.html

This reviewer also griped about 'why do I have to install the drivers?.'
You are not alone. Luckily, Ubuntu installs pretty quickly. I WAS able to
connect with WEP (I've got a centrino), but only after entering the SSID
and WEB hex pass code many times: I've had this problem before with Ubuntu
- it seems one has to try again-and-again while praying to the correct
godling.

Dell is adopting "Feisty Fawn" for it's line of desktop/laptops with Linux.

Good luck.
-- 
Roger W. Broseus

> I put the Feisty Fawn upgrade on my laptop (a P3 with a an older netgear
> wireless MA521 802.11b card) and promptly lost wireless cabability. If
> anyone has patience to help me get it back let me know. Thanks.
>
> I did the upgrade by clicking on the upgrade button presented by the
> Synaptic Package manager. This may have been a mistake.
>
> More serious - while flounderng around trying to solve the laptop problem
> - using I downloaded a wireless manager ap to my desktop via Synpatic
> which caused my desktop to loose its ability to connect to the internet.
> I tried doing a lot of things (including repair broken system) which only
> made everything worse. Mostly it made things worse because I did not want
> to do a 'clean install' but tried to install while leaving things on the
> partition. The automated install script ran into problems when it came to
> installing something called brltty-x11.
>
> at this point I am back because I have two boot harddrives (swappable
> drawers) and I am booted off the backup drive. Prior to the "actions that
> made things worse" I did copy my home directory over to the external USB
> drive I have for storage of stuff.
>
> I then used gparted to resize the partitions on the primary drive.
>
> The primary drive did not have /home in a separate partition. I am going
> to try and do that so that in the future I can wipe out the installation
> to do a clean install without wiping out /home.
>
> This is the first big problem I have had with Ubuntu in 2 years but I
> really wish I knew what I did to mess up the internet connectivity on the
> desktop.
>
> Two complaints about ubuntu
> (1) Why do my nvidia drivers go away every time I upgrade - then I need
> to reinstall them.
>
> (2)The snapshot screen ap only saves images as .png's but the image
> viewer ap will not print .png's so you have to convert screen shots
> to .jpgs to print them out for a permanent record. I use screenshots when
> trying to save a record of "things I have done that may have messed up the
> system".
>
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