Posted on 02/16/2009 6:37:42 PM PST by Ron Jeremy
So, you are sitting in your mothers basement right now, checking your favorite message boards while tending to the carpal tunnel syndrome you have developed from too many hours playing world of warcraft.
You have a crush on that level 60 wizard, and she claims she is a girl, but then again, its probably another dude in his mothers basement.
You'd like to get out sometimes. Sometimes you even do. You make it to the comic book store once a week, and sometimes even travel to local star trek conventions.
Still, you wonder why you have not received the publicity and ultimately monetary reward for being such a genius programmer. After all, you are a linux programmer. You are a genius, and much smarter and better than those fools who wrote the bloated and annoying vista. After all, there system uses WAAAY too much resources.
So, when writing 6.06 for Ubuntu, you figured, "hell, why have a simple button that lists available wireless networks for people to connect to? Even is they are sitting ten feet from a non-encrypted linksys router, why make it easy to connect? Let a guy jump on a vista and hit "connect", but not us. After all, we are Linux! We are so much smarter than the Vista programmers".
"But don't worry, we will have support and documentation online. When people ask questions, like 'how the hell do I search wireless networks', we will answer with, 'well is it a such and such connection, or another sort of detailed question connection'. Our answers will be a lot like the monty python question about the speed of an african or european swallow. That will show those consumers how damn smart we are. One day we will get the recognition we deserve as the genius programmers we are!!!!!"
Easy
RTFM
You get what you pay for...;-)
I did. It says click on the “network manager” icon in toolbar, which is not there.
Did you just call him “easy?”
LOL
Canonical probably pays its coders enough that they don’t have to live in their mothers’ basements. Anyway, man iwlist and iwconfig.
My mother dosen’t have a basement on her house.
Ever consider 8.04 or 8.10?
Do they have it? If so, I will upgrade.
Upgrade first.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
As an alternative try:
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Linux Mint comes with a lot of the multimedia working out of the box. It’s basically Ubuntu with a twist.
Yes, upgrade to 8.04. ...works fine.
Have you posted at the Ubuntu forums?
Wait - are you logged in?
I put Ubuntu 8.10 on my little netbook a couple weeks ago, and it had no trouble discovering APs. Unfortunately the ath_pci driver broke any time I looked like I was about to sneeze. Swapped it for Fedora 10 & that just plain works. The spiffy Gnome WM was a bit of a turd on the Atom 270 but xfce, if not as pretty, clicks right along.
With Fedora, if something is not 100% GPL it won't come bundled with the system so you have to gather some things like media codecs, but everything I have tried so far has worked like it's supposed to.
Super Ubuntu - yet another Ubuntu based distro
AND
The second link requires some work ....of the Linux type ...and I have NOT figured it out yet....but I want 64 bit and I want the New 9.04 Jaunty Jacklope as it has some nice features that I really like....much improved font for the hardware that I have....and Firefox 3.07 ......
Thanks for the heads up. I am a little Minty these days.
Mint is a good one.
And they have 64 bit now also....Had that running...
My negative with it was the fonts...
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