[DC LoCo] Escaping the DarkSide

[Jeremy C.]

Hey there everyone!

I've been lurking here on the list for a while after getting the chance to
meet Kevin quite a few months back. I have been very busy volunteering for
the Obama campaign so haven't had much time lately.

I managed to talk my uncle out of one of his off-lease laptops this last
week and finally took the plunge in trying to make Ubuntu my only OS on this
new system:

Acer Aspire 3002LCi (Circa ~2004)
AMD Sempron 2800+
30 gig/about 700mb RAM
(I want to try to get a 3400+ chip for it and run it up to it's maximum 2
gigs of RAM)

I installed a fresh copy of Hardy on Wednesday night. I was running the
initial "update" with about 97 packages. I had brought it in from the
livingroom to hook it up directly to my router. Not more than 15 minutes
after moving it, the battery completely died with no warning (guess i need
one of those too) right in the middle of package #65. After coming back,
half the buttons on Application Manager weren't working so went ahead and
re-imaged fresh with Hardy again.

Then I ran into the dreaded BROADCOM monster. I think I've seen others on
here battling this beast previously, so I wanted to at least shared the
instructions that finally saved me after about 4-5 hours of banging my head.
My model was this one ...

Broadcom Corporation BCM4318
[AirForce<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AirForce>One 54g] 802.11g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

and here's the life saving fix:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766560

Anyway, just wanted to say hi to everyone and looking forward to helping
bring Arlington further into the community! I want to work on adding
Washington & Lee to our list of local labs.

Best regards,

JWC
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