Having some real issues

[James Takac]

Hi Pat

On Friday 05 September 2008 14:02:26 Pat Brown wrote:
> I had to reinstall my Ubuntu laptop and since then I'm having nothing but
> problems. My wireless NIC doesn't exist as far as Ubuntu is concerned and I
> can't get Thunderbird installed. I downloaded the app and extracted it
> through the package manager, but it's not showing up in my applications and
> I can't get it to run. I installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, an actual copy from
> Ubuntu, not a burned download.
>
> I have run Update Manager but no updates are available, which I find hard
> to believe



It my help to know more about your system, i.e. make and model of the laptop, 
which type of wireless card, etc. It might be you need to install ndiswrapper 
and or a windows driver for your card. If we know the specifics it'll make it 
easier to figure things out

James