Comments on: Holiday week http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/ The Revd Gareth J M Saunders' weblog Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Kennedy http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48489 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:08:49 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48489 Doug says Ah! no wireless support for Ubuntu. Damn. that could be a problem then since I do love my wireless, however, I shall settle for ethernet :) Kennedy says No, there is plenty of wireless support in Ubuntu. It's just that I can't get the particular combination of old SONY laptop and even older Netgear PCMCIA card working under ubuntu. I'm sure it is incompetence on my part and perhaps the wrong drivers because the wireless works fine on the same laptop/card when i use it with XP. Ubuntu is seeing the card (and indeed my wireless network). It's just when I put in the WPA stuff it doesn't seem to want to connect. It's OK because I usually us the laptop on my desk with a wired Ethernet connection. I am typing this in Firefox on ubuntu 7.10. And with ubuntu it seems to be one or the other - not both at the same time as you can with XP. I am also sorely tempted to ditch VIsta on my Dell Inspiron 6400 and make it a dual boot XP/Ubuntu. Vista is just too hard to deal with sometimes. Setting an old PC up as a server using 7.10 is quite fun as well - it has pre-configured scripts to make it a mail engine, DNS/gateway box or a LAMP server. Once it is up and running you can use the Webmin from your browser to do the admin or telnet/SSH if you like command line stuff. Kennedy Kennedy Doug says

Ah! no wireless support for Ubuntu.
Damn.
that could be a problem then since I do love my wireless, however, I shall settle for ethernet :)

Kennedy says

No, there is plenty of wireless support in Ubuntu. It’s just that I can’t get the particular combination of old SONY laptop and even older Netgear PCMCIA card working under ubuntu. I’m sure it is incompetence on my part and perhaps the wrong drivers because the wireless works fine on the same laptop/card when i use it with XP. Ubuntu is seeing the card (and indeed my wireless network). It’s just when I put in the WPA stuff it doesn’t seem to want to connect.

It’s OK because I usually us the laptop on my desk with a wired Ethernet connection. I am typing this in Firefox on ubuntu 7.10. And with ubuntu it seems to be one or the other - not both at the same time as you can with XP.

I am also sorely tempted to ditch VIsta on my Dell Inspiron 6400 and make it a dual boot XP/Ubuntu. Vista is just too hard to deal with sometimes.

Setting an old PC up as a server using 7.10 is quite fun as well - it has pre-configured scripts to make it a mail engine, DNS/gateway box or a LAMP server. Once it is up and running you can use the Webmin from your browser to do the admin or telnet/SSH if you like command line stuff.

Kennedy

Kennedy

]]> by: Doug http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48467 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:40:51 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48467 Ah! no wireless support for Ubuntu. Damn. that could be a problem then since I do love my wireless, however, I shall settle for ethernet :) Who knows, I might chuck Vista and dual boot XP and Ubuntu :D But back to the post.... Sounds like a great and productive holiday :) Ah! no wireless support for Ubuntu.
Damn.
that could be a problem then since I do love my wireless, however, I shall settle for ethernet :)

Who knows, I might chuck Vista and dual boot XP and Ubuntu :D

But back to the post….

Sounds like a great and productive holiday :)

]]> by: Gareth J M Saunders http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48441 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:07:57 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48441 I had a ready-made CD-ROM of Kubuntu 6.06 kindly sent to me by Team Kubuntu months ago. So I just used it. I simply wanted to see how easy it was to install. I've now downloaded the latest version as an ISO file. I'll check it out soon. I had a ready-made CD-ROM of Kubuntu 6.06 kindly sent to me by Team Kubuntu months ago. So I just used it. I simply wanted to see how easy it was to install.

I’ve now downloaded the latest version as an ISO file. I’ll check it out soon.

]]> by: Kennedy http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48439 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:28:00 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2007/11/18/holiday-week/#comment-48439 Only Kubuntu 6.06. The later versions are (even) more friendly. I have an old IBM Netfinity 300 running the server version of Ubuntu 7.10 and a fairly ancient Sony laptop dual booting with the desktop version. The server is running fine with installations of Wordpress, Mediawiki and Joomla and Apache. Webmin provides most of the admin tools while Putty allows me to do command line type things directly. Putting Plone on is the project for next week. Apart from not being able to get the wireless working on the laptop under Ubuntu (grr -it works fine under XP) it is a perfectly usable laptop with Openoffice, Firefox and Thunderbird doing the needful. I am not a Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination but I have dealt with most of the problems I have encountered thanks to the help system and the amount of online resources available for ubuntu. Kennedy Only Kubuntu 6.06. The later versions are (even) more friendly. I have an old IBM Netfinity 300 running the server version of Ubuntu 7.10 and a fairly ancient Sony laptop dual booting with the desktop version.

The server is running fine with installations of Wordpress, Mediawiki and Joomla and Apache. Webmin provides most of the admin tools while Putty allows me to do command line type things directly. Putting Plone on is the project for next week.

Apart from not being able to get the wireless working on the laptop under Ubuntu (grr -it works fine under XP) it is a perfectly usable laptop with Openoffice, Firefox and Thunderbird doing the needful.

I am not a Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination but I have dealt with most of the problems I have encountered thanks to the help system and the amount of online resources available for ubuntu.

Kennedy

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