Wireless not so Gutsy
Holy cow have I had a rough morning with Ubuntu. The wireless connection seems to fail if I leave it idle for a minute or two on my Dell XPS m1330. I wanted to make my first official post FROM Ubuntu this morning (I’m camped out with my work and personal laptop right now in the Anthropology library at UC Berkeley), but have been unable to keep a connection long enough to get it completed. Oh well, I’ve booted back into Vista to post this. I was trying to debug this, but don’t have much more time to dedicate to figuring it out at the moment. Here’s what I’ve found thus far:
a bug has been filed on this issue (#139832), there seems to be a dedicated laptop testing team that I may sacrifice my XPS m1330 to officially since I want Gutsy to “just work” on this really well designed machine. Plus it will give me a chance to learn how to debug things in Linux and really, isn’t that what it’s all about? I kid, I kid. Anyway, back to work (the real kind that pays me, not “WorkBuntu”)
[...] to be some sort of uber fast logout-login. Nice. I’m not sure if it fixes the aforementioned wireless weirdness, but I guess I’ll find out as soon as it drops again (Pandora still going after an [...]
Good to see you in the world of Ubuntu.
I have had no issues with this version with the dreaded Broadcom 43xx (the specific revision seems to be the dreaded one, can’t remember which one). I had a pain of a time under different distros (fedora) with getting NDISWrapper to work. After using feisty as my first version of Ubuntu, I was bummed that the native linux driver seemed to intsall and not work. Well blah, point is keep on it, due to linux being an agressive open community, post about it on the ubuntu forums and most people troll (search about in a trolling manner perhaps?) the forums and usually are pretty constructive. Keep the faith.
RZ