Ubuntu 8 Hh

[nikster]

I upgraded my Ubuntu 7 to 8 recently. Reboot, and everything worked except... tada.. the wireless. That had worked out of the box in ubuntu 7. Tried to find out what's wrong for a little while then gave up.

Here is the troubling part: This is now a 2 year old laptop with bog standard Intel hardware. It *should* be supported. It was working before. And here is what's even more troubling IMHO: Just for kicks, I tried the alternative kernel boot that ubuntu had entered into my boot options, booted with kernel 2.6.22-14 instead of the standard "2.6.24-19". And wireless came back, connected right away and all.

I find it really fishy that a device driver would be in the kernel to begin with - shouldn't the kernel be a pure entity tasked with scheduling and such? But then maybe the wifi driver isn't really in the kernel, maybe the new kernel just makes the wifi driver not work. Still, that's pretty basic...

The other issue is that my Firefox is now displaying ThaiVisa in Courier fixed width font. No idea why?! That also used to work in Ubuntu 7 unless ThaiVisa changed their formatting which I doubt.

All in all - ubuntu remains in a perpetual "almost there" state and there doesn't seem to be hope that it will eventually pass over to the "it has arrived" stage. At least for people like me who don't enjoy tinkering with their OS...

[slug]

I have had the same issue with a couple of laptops recently.

Issue seemed to be the version of the drivers used by the latest Ubuntu kernel and was solved by downloading and compiling the software using the instructions here

device drivers are generally either compiled into the kernel or loaded as kernel modules - IIRC network interface drivers cannot run in user-space

[niller74]

I upgraded my Ubuntu 7 to 8 recently. Reboot, and everything worked except... tada.. the wireless. That had worked out of the box in ubuntu 7. Tried to find out what's wrong for a little while then gave up.

Here is the troubling part: This is now a 2 year old laptop with bog standard Intel hardware. It *should* be supported. It was working before. And here is what's even more troubling IMHO: Just for kicks, I tried the alternative kernel boot that ubuntu had entered into my boot options, booted with kernel 2.6.22-14 instead of the standard "2.6.24-19". And wireless came back, connected right away and all.

I find it really fishy that a device driver would be in the kernel to begin with - shouldn't the kernel be a pure entity tasked with scheduling and such? But then maybe the wifi driver isn't really in the kernel, maybe the new kernel just makes the wifi driver not work. Still, that's pretty basic...

The other issue is that my Firefox is now displaying ThaiVisa in Courier fixed width font. No idea why?! That also used to work in Ubuntu 7 unless ThaiVisa changed their formatting which I doubt.

All in all - ubuntu remains in a perpetual "almost there" state and there doesn't seem to be hope that it will eventually pass over to the "it has arrived" stage. At least for people like me who don't enjoy tinkering with their OS...

Let me guess. 'lspci' show something similar to this:

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/190346

I stuck around with 7.10 for the same reason. It appears that some have made it work with a serie of hacks and backports, but I don't even want to get into that. 7.10 works fine for now. Only thing I'm missing is FF3.

[khunphil]

Hi,

I still have Ubuntu 7 on my laptop and Desktop PC. Ubuntu 8 does not boot on my SCER laptop (ACPI problem)

This week-end, just for fun, I tried some new linux distro on my desktop PC (5y old) with an ACER LCD screen (very tamada) and the result was " VGA problem, X cannot be launched" with Ubuntu 8 AND Fedora 9 live CD...

PClinux OS gave me a READ CD Error ... this is what I call a bad "linux week-end" ;-).

Just sharing my results ;-) and yes, I keep with old Ubuntu 7 Gutsy and no pulseaudio with Skype.

Philippe

Linux IT Manager

[niller74]

I found the solution to my wifi problem here and are now running 8.04 with no known issues.

http://moustafaemara.wordpress.com/2008/06...untu-804-hardy/

[RigPig]

<br />I found the solution to my wifi problem here and are now running 8.04 with no known issues.<br /><br /><a href="http://moustafaemara.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/fixing-intel-wireless-card-3945abg-defination-in-ubuntu-804-hardy/" target="_blank">http://moustafaemara.wordpress.com/2008/06...untu-804-hardy/</a><br />

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Yes I had problems when I switched too but it was still in beta then and I have managed to resolve most issues. There is something screwy with the video, it works but I have the odd problem with some things telling me it is the wrong drive. When I installed the "correct" driver from Nvidias it came out all purply on videos so I ditched it. Before I used Automatix which solved a lot of problems but they have shelved the project, shame.