[DC LoCo] wifi card activated, but computer doesn't surf

[James]

Yeah, I have a PIII and it always freezes when I try to install from
any live CD. But the alt CDs work fine. It's running Hardy now.
Supposedly the wireless for Intrepid is much better, but on another
machine, I couldn't get wireless to work and just laid down a long
wire down the hall.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ted Smith <teddks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try installing from the "Alternate" CD, the installer there will be
> lighter than the Live CD one.
>
> I know you can install newer versions of Ubuntu on p3's, I have some
> running that right now ;)
>
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:50 -0500, Phil Shapiro wrote:
>>
>>   oops, i forgot to mention, i tried installing ubuntu 8.10, but this computer
>> ths computer froze twice during the install attempt.
>>
>>          phil
>>
>> > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:40 -0500, Phil Shapiro wrote:
>> > > hi group,
>> > >
>> > >    someone gave me a dell pentium III desktop that i've installed ubuntu
>> > 5.04
>> > > onto.
>> >
>> > O_O You LIKE 3-years-of-no-security-updates software or what?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Mackenzie Morgan
>> > http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
>> > apt-get moo
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phil Shapiro  pshapiro at his.com
>> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
>> http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com
>> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>>
>> "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates
>>
>> "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The
>> occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As
>> our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall
>> ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Abraham Lincoln (1862)
>>
>>
>>
>
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