I’m glad to be hooked up to the tubes again! Even though I’m at Coffee Cat right now (how can it be cliche when it feels so right?!) I’ve finally got internet up and running at my new house. It only took about four hours of work from the point of Comcast lighting up the [...]
I finally figured out what was wrong with Ubuntu and my WLAN so I’ve got it up and running now. It was a little bit my fault and a little bit Linux’s fault. I discovered that where I thought it was asking for the name of my network it was actually asking me to select [...]
No not laughing out loud, I’m talking Linux on (my) laptop. OK, so I exaggerated a bit when I said half the hardware wasn’t recognized, but it is a good portion which isn’t. I decided to give a different distro a shot and went with Mandriva. Mandriva seems to work and run better using a [...]
So putting Linux on my laptop has proved to be an interesting and frustrating experience. I now have Ubuntu installed and running but it won’t recognize any wireless networks which kind of defeats the purpose of using a laptop. It also doesn’t recognize about half of the hardware in the computer (which I don’t entirely [...]
