Upgrading from 6.10 to 7.04

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 26 April 2007, macariov at gmail.com wrote:
> The onmy major issue I had was my wireless card, Atheros, not recognized on
> install.  Now, to be fair, feisty did recognize it.  What made the
> difference for me was having my video recognized as basic vesa and audio
> not recognized at all in feisty.  Both worked in Edgy and they do now in
> Mandriva.  As for the wifi card, I plugged anetgear MA111, which I could
> never make work on any ubuntu flavor.  On mandriva it was dtected and
> installed.  I immediately did amanual update and then tried to detect the
> other, atheiros, wifi.  It came succesfully and has been working ever
> since.   I have not given up on Ubuntu, I do really believe it is agreat
> distro.  I am installing a second hdd with 250gb capacity and will install
> edgy 64.  I will continue to doble boot mandriva/edgy until such time
> feisty 64 gets stable, Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

I'm using kubuntu on my laptop with an Atheros card (Netgear) and it works 
fine.

I had to install the slmodemd stuff   (Softlink modem) and use an ALSA modem 
driver.   Sounds like a solution for you.