A status report of sorts....

[poltr1]

Two weeks after installing Linux on the "new" laptop (a Dell Latitude CPx J), everything is mostly working, except for the PCMCIA modem and wireless cards. I have posts in Ubuntu Forums, but there haven't been many responses to my questions.

To recap: The hardware finds my modem, but the software doesn't. Supposedly there's a driver I can use, but I don't know how to install it. As for the network card, I get the bluse swirl for about 60 seconds while it tries to join a network, and then it stops.

Shout-outs: Happy birthday to ohiblather and to katyhh!

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Re: Ubuntu

[poltr1]

The laptop install was fairly easy, except that I had to repeat it 5 or 6 times. The first few times, I forgot to tell it to use the entire disk. (Otherwise, it kept repartitioning the disk into smaller and smaller segments.) And a couple of times, I had a read/write error, which killed the install process.

If I knew technoshaman or mdlbear any better, I'd ask them for help.

Re: Ubuntu

[urban-terrorist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes things get interesting . Yah gotta love computers, otherwise it's baseball bat time!