[Felix]

okay, so let's see here. thus far i have successfully made a partition for and installed ubuntu, and booted into it exactly once so that i could (with some not insurmountable difficulty) make grub by default boot into windows with a 3 second timeout window.

this involved me teaching myself what the 'sudo' command does (hey thanks for telling me i couldn't edit that file elsewise when as far as i know i'm the only use who ought to have any privileges for anything), and still i would've been completely for shit had i not known that you have to use 'gedit' in unix. anywho.

ubuntu boots with this little notice in the top right saying that there aren't any open drivers for my modem or video card, and would i like to use restricted ones? i tried enabling them for the radeon, to no avail.

something of a bigger issue is that it doesn't appear to recognize my wireless card at all. it's listed in the device manager and all, but nothing else on there gives me any indication that ubuntu knows what to do with it. presumably if i could get online i would have a much better chance of actually finding proper video drivers, so i'd kind of like to iron this one out first.

thank you!!

[Gironika]

[taidan]

[Jeff Garneau]

ethos did you try the Administration > restricted drivers manager thing??

otherwise try the Envy script for installing video drivers. google it.

also good luck on wireless lol

[raucous]

The reason for sudo or su is that 99% of the time, you should not have admin privileges while using your comp. This is why windows has such big problems with rootkits/spyware. This system keeps your comp. safe. it can be a pain, but it saves you tons of heartache in the longrun

I dont know why you cant get your wireless working. If it recognized your card, you should just be able to go to the network manager and find a network to connect to... If that doesnt work try tweaking the settings...if its a laptop make sure your wireless button is activated (if applicable)... if still nothing: ubuntuforums. Also drag the cat5 over, and see if you cant get some sort of update online to... well... get you online :)

I upgraded this shitty compaq laptop I had from Feisty to Gusty and was having some serious problems, so I decided to check out the newest openSuse distro (10.3). I have been very happy with it, it seems geared towards KDE, which im digging, but I might go back to the gnome DE (which is what ubuntu uses). Ubuntu does some things wonderfully, but there are other great distros out there, mandriva, suse, fedora etc. Almost all of these allow for live cds to be able to check it out w/o installing
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[Baron Patsy]

Depending on what wireless card you have, you might have to use ndiswrapper to get the drivers working properly. It's a hassle, but when I ran Ubuntu, having to mess with that helped me to familiarize myself with how Ubuntu and the command line work, so it was probably a good experience.

[Eudaimon]

[stotelheim]

The first thing anyone who runs Ubuntu should do is to install yakuake and bind it to the tilde key, as well as add it to the start-up session. It is so good, guys.
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[nothingxs]

i am married to xubuntu right now, if only because it loads super fast, looks nice enough for how simple it is and works wonderfully on my pentium 3 @ 800 mhz ibm thinkpad a21m (which, in accordance with naming my networked electronics after weapons, is called claymore).

i suggest that you use automatix to deal with any problems you have with video drivers. just note that it has the awfully nasty tendency to sometimes completely drive your installation batshit insane,

about your wireless: most integrated cards tend to not work -- you might have to spring for an external adapter. i suggest anything with the rt2500 chipset, since that chipset tends to like working out of the box. at any rate, don't ask me why your integrated chipset doesn't work, i don't know and that's more of an ubuntuforums question (which they will not be able to give you a solid enough reply, probably).

get on google and look for "wicd manager ubuntu," which will give you some information on the wicd network manager, which i use instead of the default network manager for ubuntu (which i've since disabled).

as for anything else: lolusux
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[Jeff Garneau]

btw how does one start getting into gentoo i know i gotta learn a lot of shit but idk where to start

[Jeff Garneau]

[DaleNixon]

[km]

Man, get yourself a livecd appropriate for your arch, and follow the gentoo handbook. There are things I prefer to do differently these days, but the handbook will get you a working gentoo system.
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[crithit5000]

Had the same problem with my wireless card on my laptop after installing Gutsy Gibbon. My laptop uses a Broadcom wireless adapter, which was like 'HAY, use a restricted driver to work'. So I go to load the driver and it's all 'HELL NO GTFO'. So I searched online with my PC, and I found that they sort of made access to the restricted drivers retarded to the point that a lot of users are complaining online (apparently this is a low-level complaint).

Anyways, you go to the Synaptic Package Manager under Administration. Go to Repositories under Settings and start checking boxes, especially Proprietary Drivers for Devices (Restricted). Then connect to the internet via a proper wire and go back to the Restricted Drivers Manager. Click the drivers you want to run and hope for the best!

Hope that helps the issue, and hurrah...my first Linux tutorial.

[SplashBeats]

i can't get compiz fusion to quit this awful window shearing whenever i drag a window. is there some vsync option i'm missing?