hoary preview install
Don W. Jenkins
dwjenkins at sc-zg.com
Mon Mar 21 17:19:27 UTC 2005
I'd like to give feedback on something that was mentioned on this list
before regarding the Hoary install process that appears to be a bug that
hasn't been fixed. I have tried previously to install from one of the
array discs to a fresh Hoary install, but when I get to the part of the
install that wants to do the network configuration, it finds my Atheros
wireless PCI card (Orinoco) and lists it, but it can't configure it, so
I just skip the network configuration, figuring I can do it later after
the install is finished. However, when I open the network tool in
Ubuntu, the Atheros card is no longer listed, and when I run a demsg to
see what loaded, it is apparent that no ath0 modules were loaded, so I
can't do anything. With Warty, this all happens practically
automagically. All I have had to do is go to the networking tool and
add the ath0 card and enter the ESSID and activate it. So, the only way
I have been able to get Hoary at all is to upgrade Warty and keep doing
updates. If the final release behaves the same way as the preview,
Hoary is useless to me, and from the feedback I saw previously, to some
others also. Unless what we do with the upgrades from Warty is the
rough equivalent. As someone mentioned before, we love what runs our
hardware well, and I like Ubuntu a lot, as long as it runs that vital
piece of my hardware, my wireless card. If it starts to have problems
when it wasn't, I see that as a downgrade.
My 2c,
Don J.
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