ubuntu studio and ubuntu 7.10

[Matt Henry]

Hi Darrin,

Well, I downloaded the regular Ubuntu Gutsy live CD, installed it clean and tested it out - I don't think Compiz Fusion is terribly interesting, so I reinstalled from the Ubutu Studio CD (clean install again) and tested with just the laptop, then with the 22" widescreen attached.  If I use the 'intel' driver, it works great on the laptop screen, but doesn't allow me to turn off the internal display when using the external monitor, this is the same situation I had in Feisty, so I switched to i810 and put in a shell script to set both modes, now the switch is transparent.

Then I started tackling the wifi issue - The clean install works great, it's after I connect and apply the current updates that it breaks down, so this time while I was online, before applying any updates, I went out and got a program called WICD and installed it.  After I applied the updates, I tested on reboots, etc and it's working fine.  I was also able to install the screens and graphics package, and that works too, although I won't be doing much with it at this time, I'm hoping they come up with a new intel driver that solves the rest of the video issues with Intel chipsets.

Looks like everything is good right now, thanks for your help, I'm just not familiar enough with all the Linux commands to be at the level I was at with Windows.  I've printed out a few manuals and I keep them handy when I start crashing the system and X won't load.

The good thing I've noticed about Gutsy is that it does seem to run cooler on my Dual Core laptop, it used to get pretty hot under Feisty.

Anyway, thanks for your help, I'll save those commands in case I get stuck again.


----- Original Message ----
From: Darrin Goodman <darrin.goodman at gmail.com>
To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion <ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:04:22 PM
Subject: Re: ubuntu studio and ubuntu 7.10

Oops, I forgot to include starting up dhcp into the commands.  Got
ahead of myself.  Here it is again (also, this is assuming that your
wireless interface is ath0; it could easily be something else, like
ra0, or eth1. etc.... to see what your interface is, use iwconfig):

$ sudo su
$ ifconfig ath0 up
$ dhclient ath0
$ iwconfig ath0 essid yourRouterNameHere key routerWepKey

Also, in place of the second and third line, you could instead use:
$ ifdown ath0 && ifup ath0
This will bring down your wireless interface, bring it back up, and
will start dhcp.

If the Network Manager is not cutting it for you, try out Wifi Radar;
it can be installed with Synaptic.
http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/

Good luck!

- Darrin




On 10/24/07, Matt Henry <mhenry35 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Darrin,
>
> Thanks for the info, I'll give this a try.  My issue was that I could see
> the network, but was unable to connect beyond just to the local access
> point.  I use the internet from wifi hotspots, so typically I connect to a
> webpage, log in, and then that grants me access to the outside world.
>
> I was getting the local login prompt, but after putting in my info, I never
> got the response back.  I've seen the same problem reported on the forums,
> but I didn't see anyone post a clear fix or workaround.  I did see one
> person suggest removing network manager and using a different tool - so I'm
> also going to get the details on that and give Gutsy one more try.
>
>
>
> Darrin Goodman <darrin.goodman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of you have mentioned wifi issues with Gutsy. When I upgraded to
> 7.10, when I added the Network Manager to my top panel, I noticed that
> it did not give me any wireless options, which means that I was not
> able to use the gui in order to connect to a wireless network. Not
> sure why this was the case since I am assuming that things generally
> only get better with upgrades, rather than digress. I was able to
> manually connect to wifi with the following:
> $ sudo su
> $ ifconfig ath0 up
> $ iwconfig ath0 essid yourRouterNameHere key routerWepKey
>
> However, now my Network Manager seems to be properly displaying my
> wifi networks and allows me to connect/disconnect to/from them as
> needed. The only thing that I changed was that I installed wifiradar,
> although I have not used it yet. Perhaps there was an update that was
> pushed out that solved the Network-Manager issue.
>
> For those of you who stated that you cannot connect to wifi, I wonder
> if you mean that your Network Manager is not working properly, or if
> you cannot manually connect to wifi using the commands that I listed
> above?
>
> - Darrin
>
> On 10/24/07, Pietro Bergamo wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for the hints.
> > Best regards,
> > Pietro
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