Just Made The Switch - My story of joining the Ubuntu family
Dan Rippon
rippond at gmail.com
Sun May 22 23:17:53 UTC 2005
Sweet, ubuntu is the best isnt it!
On 5/22/05, Troy Davidson <clandaith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well,
>
> I am sold on Ubuntu. Specifically, Kubuntu. I have a Compaq Presario
> 2100 laptop. Everyone says that putting Linux on this laptop isn't
> the easiest because it doesn't support APM. It needs ACPI. And the
> pcmci slot can be buggy. I have had this laptop for over a year and
> put Mandrake 10.0 on it. I had to make a custom kernel and do some
> tweaking to get my wifi card, D-Link DWL-G650, to work. But, I did
> it.
>
> Well, I decided to upgrade to Mandrake LE2005 last weekend. Again, I
> had to make a custom kernel for the ACPI and the wifi to work. And,
> ACPI wass buggy and didn't work properly. It wouldn't recognize when
> the power cord was removed or plugged in. And for some reason, my '
> and ; keys didn't work very well. I fought with LE2005 all week
> trying to make it work right.
>
> I had heard of Ubuntu before. I heard it was an awesome distro. I
> looked into it and wasn't too excited about it since its main GUI was
> Gnome. But then I found Kubuntu.
>
> I burned a disk yesterday and put it in the drive. I booted up the
> laptop and installed Kubuntu. Everything went well. It even found my
> wireless card!
>
> All right. Everything is good so far. I log in for the first time
> and notice the KLaptop icon that is the front end for controlling
> ACPI. I have the laptop plugged into power so I unplug it and lo and
> behold, the icon changes to a battery! It picked up that I had
> switched power sources! LE2005 couldn't do that. The fans also
> weren't coming on. That meant that the ACPI was working correctly! I
> was amazed.
>
> But, my wifi card wouldn't connect. I fiddled a bit with it, but it
> still wouldn't go on. This morning I was looking at a few config
> files and came across /etc/network/interfaces. I noticed all the
> mentions for eth0 and lo. No mention of ath0. I edited the file and
> copied all the entries that had eth0 and changed them to ath0.
> Rebooted the system and no my wifi card worked! I was so excited!
>
> Needless to say, Ubuntu has done what LE2005 couldn't. I didn't need
> to customize my kernel or anything.
>
> I am still having problems with the learning curve and figuring out
> how you do things in Ubuntu. I am used to the MCC in Mandrake.
>
> Anyway, I am sold. I am very excited about Ubuntu and will be taking
> my laptop into work tomorrow to so the other Linux advocates.
> --
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> Troy Davidson
>
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