8.04 networking seems awfully broken.
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jul 24 17:09:37 UTC 2008
Grant Edwards wrote:
> I found recipes in forum postings. Was the installer supposed
> to do something?
No. The "hardware drivers manager" does (jockey-kde in KDE and jockey-gtk
in Gnome), _after_ you start your desktop.
>
>> The firmware is not distributed by Ubuntu because it can't
>> legally be distributed - and those instructions tell you that,
>> too. That said, it doesn't require _manually_ building from a
>> source tarball.
>>
>>>> Maybe this is the whole problem. If you had just loaded Hardy
>>>> and rebooted and did the little easy things and then let it
>>>> just sit turned on for 30 minutes, it might have just started
>>>> working. Mine did.
>
> I'm a bit baffled, what's the 30-minute wait for? I've
> selected a network and entered a password, why wait for 30
> minutes?
Maybe not 30 - but in my case it did require some time before Jockey told me
about the required firmware.
--
derek
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