I have come to the conclusion that most distro's have a hard time with USB wifi cards, especially DLINK, but built in wifi cards such as laptops and netbooks seem to have no issues. I have 10.4 LTS installed on my desktop (wired connection) and my netbook and EVERYTHING works great! I installed the netbook remix and the interface is very nice. I am going to see how well the netbook interface works on a desktop install. The interface that it uses can be installed via sudo apt-get install netbook-launcher I installed 10.4 netbook remix on my Moms netbook and she likes it, she can find everything that she needs and is much easier than windows. I am thinking I have converted another windows user! LOL My Mom BTW does not use the computer very much at all, just to play games (which she likes the fact that she has a ton available at no cost!) and soon to be using email again! She has been without email for a few years since changing ISP's and not having much time to mess around with it. But as far as 10.4 LTS goes it is doing good. I have it installed on a P3 1.13 Ghz (I believe 512mb ram but maybe only 256) cheap onboard 8 MB Dell video card, upgraded it from 9.10 Edubuntu. I also did an upgrade on my Desktop which is dual core 2 Ghz Celeron (yada yada yada) and it runs excellent. My only complaint with the install is that if you do not have either 8.4 or 9.10 then you have to either do a fresh install or step up the upgrades from say 9.4 to 9.10 to 10.4 which is a real PITA!! Not to mention a big bandwidth hog! And time consuming! I really wish that I did not have to do the step ups and not have to do a clean install just to get up to 10.4. The thing I do not like with 10.4 is that the minimize maximize and close is now like the MAC so they are in the left side at the top. I installed the netbook-launcher on my daughters desktop 10.4 and it is a very nice interface. I just have to play around with it and try to get the programs I want in the "Favorites" Ok well that is enough about it for now! Chuq -----Original Message----- From: frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Brown Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 8:42 PM To: FreeGeek Michiana Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 1. Grub Over the weekend, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my test box at home which already has VL 6.x on the main drive. The Ubuntu installer recognized the OS and gave me the option of resizing partitions so it could create a separate partition for Ubuntu. That's what I did. I updated and upgraded the default install packages, and grub displayed a boot menu on the next reboot. 2. Wireless/Wired Wireless doesn't work out of the box. I didn't expect it too in spite of claims that wireless networking has improved on Ubuntu. The OS seems to have found the D-Link USB wireless N adapter and the access point but can't connect the two. At least the lights blink on the adapter, a good sign. The wireless subsystem operates fine under VL 6.x so I know the equipment is good and the gui configuration on both distros is right. The wired network works flawlessly out of the box. Ubuntu sees the Windows network which is really a Slackware file server running Samba. 3. Network printing The desktop effectively hides what is happening in the background so I assume CUPS handles network printing. Our multi-function printer (MFP) has a network interface built in, and our laserjet does not. CUPS found the MFP on its own and installed drivers (I haven't tested them yet). After I indicated which host the laserjet is connected to and which driver to install, CUPS successfully configured the laser printer. 4. Window controls Whenever I attempt to use a window control, I first mouse to the right, see there are no controls, then mouse to the left to correct. Seems an arbitrary decision to have moved the controls. 5. Video/Sound Ubuntu chose 800x600 instead of 1024x768. The desktop gui utility fails to reconfigure X windows at 1024x768 so it can only be done manually. I think Mike pointed this out earlier. I downloaded an AVI format video and tried to play it with the default movie player. Ubuntu automatically asked me if I wanted to install restricted files. I said 'yes', and the package manager downloaded and installed the minimum files to play the video. The libraries also suport mpg/mpeg videos. The sound subsystem is not working. Fr. Robert fixed Marc's sound by disabling the modem. The sound and modem chip are the same chip, a DSP. The modem software had grabbed the DSP and wouldn't let go. 6. Responsiveness The test box has an MSI mainboard, 2 MB of DDR2 500 RAM, a Pentium 4/2.8 GHz CPU and an 80 GB SATA drive. Any distro I would likely use should run well on this hardware, and Ubuntu runs fine as expected. OpenOffice doesn't leap to the screen, but opens comfortably. 6. Overall After a month or two, I suspect 10.04 LTS will be fully functional and stable although my hopes are not high for wireless networking, always the fly in the ointment. Tom ** This list is PUBLICLY archived. ** PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain. 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