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  • Posted at 11:22 AM on April 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Ubuntu 9.04 Beta 

    There are plenty of great things about Ubuntu Operating System besides its being an open source product. Ubuntu recently announced about its new version 9.04 which is set to be released on April 23, 2009.

    Of course they have implemented some new features and applications into Ubuntu. You can refer it to Ubuntu’s web site to learn more about these new features.

    Here are some of them.

    • Latest version of  Gnome, 2.26. This includes a CD Burning Application.
    • Better Boot Performance. They have also changed the design of log-on screen. Instead of brown (ish) color scheme, they have chosen a darker tone close to black.
    • New Style for notifications on desktop.

    I upgraded my previous version of ubuntu to 9.04 beta.  The problem I had with Ubuntu 8.10 was that wireless manager was not working properly and it took me a while to figure it out.  The process of getting it working was frustrating.  But it didn’t happen with this new beta version.   Maybe it was because of my laptop, which I have to say that Ubuntu looks a lot nicer with good graphics.

    Ubuntu has its advantages and disadvantages. All products may not function as they are supposed for all the time and when people encounter problems with Ubuntu, they got discouraged and switch back to Windows. The reason is that it’s not hard to resolve the problems but they think that it is.  That’s simply they are not familiar with the product and they don’t know how to get around.  It’s going to take some time for people to get used to this great product.

    Countdown:

     

  • Posted at 12:57 AM on November 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Ubuntu How to: Enable Your Wireless Card [Dell Broadcom BCM4311] 

    One thing I dislike about ubuntu is that every time they release a new version, things get messed up. This happened to me when I upgraded my ubuntu to 7.10 as well.

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    So I immediately upgraded my ubuntu to 8.10. Connecting to the Internet(wireless) is always an issue among the users. I should say “newbie/inexperienced users”. I couldn’t connect to the internet because my wifi driver was disabled. Ubuntu the system itself has not provided me with good information to enable it. It tells you how you can check whether it’s enabled or disabled, and that’s it. If it’s disabled, it doesn’t tell you how to enable it. Anyways, you need to go on to their support forums and see if someone has already posted about the issue you are having and chances are someone already have. So next step would be to see if your product matches with theirs. If it doesn’t match, you keep searching on forums and eventually you will have to post your own topic. Sometimes, you don’t even get a response to your post. This literally can take hours.

    This is one of the things that I want to see in ubuntu. They should either make ubuntu come with everything ready to work or they should prepare better documentation for common cases.  Anyhow,  here is what I did to get my wireless working again.

    Thanks to “Ayuthia” for his helpful posts.

    sudo modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb wl
    sudo modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
    sudo modprobe wl
    sudo modprobe b44
    sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

    If you are like me, who doesn’t understand much from linux and ubuntu, you are going to need to search the ubuntu forums to find the right piece of code to execute in terminal. It’s pretty much try and fail until you find the right one.

    Those five command lines fixed my problem but everytime I reboot ubuntu, it would require me to execute them again and to fix that problem, you need to edit “rc.local” file in the system. To do that;

    You need to edit “rc.local” and add following code at the end.

    Open terminal and type this
    gksudo gedit/etc/rc.local

    and add this just before “exit 0″

    modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb wl
    modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
    modprobe wl
    modprobe b44
    /etc/init.d/networking restart

    After you save, you can restart your system. If you need further instructions, you should go ahead and post at ubuntu support forums. Also, here is my product info.
    *-network
    description: Wireless interface
    product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
    vendor: Broadcom Corporation
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
    logical name: eth1
    version: 01
    serial: 00:16:cf:71:b1:f1
    width: 32 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl ip=192.168.1.101 latency=0 module=wl multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

    As said, different devices require different installations. So good luck on searching the forums.

     

    • Andrew 2:35 AM on February 15, 2009 Permalink

      All day working on this damn card, and thank you thank you thank you your commands did it.

      cheers

    • Zephyr 4:50 PM on February 17, 2009 Permalink

      It keeps telling me that my ssb module is in use when I try to enter the first five commands.

    • Charles 3:35 PM on February 20, 2009 Permalink

      Hey – Thanks! I had this exact same problem and the documentation of was no use.

    • Tenth Blogger 11:59 PM on February 21, 2009 Permalink

      @Zephyr, Did you try to access that file manually?

    • Zephyr 11:18 PM on February 22, 2009 Permalink

      I’m good now; I enabled my wireless card by installing the Broadcom B43 Legacy driver.

    • Chris G 8:36 AM on February 28, 2009 Permalink

      Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

      I’ve been struggling to get my wireless to work with Ubuntu. After trying many suggestions, your’s was the trick that finally worked!!!

    • merwolf 8:14 PM on March 11, 2009 Permalink

      God freaking bless you.

    • Tenth Blogger 9:27 PM on March 11, 2009 Permalink

      Thank you :)

    • Nav 10:38 PM on March 26, 2009 Permalink

      I have never said this to a guy before, but I LOVE YOU! I was about to slit my wrists, I was so frustrated with trying to get the wireless working with Ubuntu. This fixed it!

    • brandon lee 3:11 PM on March 31, 2009 Permalink

      hi there, i understand the rc.local file is in the etc folder. however when i access it and try to open it in terminal, terminal doesnt come up. in gedit, i cannot save the file coz it says i dont have the permission.im the only user of this computer i dunno who else can!! what can i do? im on a compaq presario v3000 using the bcm 4311 card.
      when i run hardware test it says this:Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
      Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02

      any solution? thanks so much though!

    • Ariel 12:07 PM on April 24, 2009 Permalink

      Hey,

      I found a way of putting wireless to work very simple.
      See:

      http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware

      I got this link from the command “dmesg” on a HPNX6110 laptop (Broadcom 4306) and solve the issue in 5 minutes following those instructions.

      Bye!

    • Adam Bernstein 10:50 AM on April 25, 2009 Permalink

      With Jaunty on an HP Pavilion dv9000, after many wasted hours scouring the forums and messing around with their suggestions, I found simply doing this fixed wireless with my hardware:

      Launch System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
      Select the “Broadcom B43 wireless driver”
      Press Activate (Wait a very long time…)
      Reboot

      This tip came from:
      http://aldeby.org/blog/index.php/howto-ubuntu-linux-on-hp-pavilion-dv2000-dv6000-dv9000-series-laptops#wireless

      Better documentation up front is really needed here. Just working out of the box would be better. This is one area where Ubuntu continues to disappoint in an otherwise excellent distro.

    • Anil 6:51 PM on April 30, 2009 Permalink

      Hello Adam Bernstein

      Thanks a million for the post above. worked like a charm. Just couldn’t believe there was such an easy option after working all day long to get this issue resolved. After reading your post it took less than 5 minutes get my problem solved. Once again thanks.

    • Martin 9:27 PM on May 1, 2009 Permalink

      Adam,

      I went down the same road and you are correct. I tested it with the live CD before installing to my drive. It works great, I didn’t need to reboot. My security is WPA-PSK, I choose WPA Personal.

      Thanks.

    • FV 4:44 PM on May 16, 2009 Permalink

      Adam,

      Just a big thank you!! the information you put was spot on. I was searching for solution for days! and for once I didn’t have to open the terminal!!
      shame this straightforward info was nowhere on ubuntu help pages!

      thanks again!

    • roner70 1:50 PM on July 7, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks a lot, saved me some time. I reinstalled my laptop today (Ubuntu 9.04 desktop) and got this problem, strange that I didn’t got it when I first installed 9.04?!

    • Myron 3:14 PM on August 22, 2009 Permalink

      Adam,

      Thank you for resolving this dreadfully time-consuming nuisance. But in my case (9.04 on a Dell XPS M1330 with a WUBI install under Vista 64-bit) the Hardware Drivers display for my Broadcom BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/h version 3 with a b43-pci-bridge driver read that it was already activated. Taking a hint from your suggestion, I deactivated, then reactivated and waited… not so long. Then rebooted and all became well.

    • s0ul 12:23 AM on August 28, 2009 Permalink

      Thank you so much for this post! I have been searching for weeks on how to get my wireless working but to no avail. I stumbled across this and it works perfectly. If you are like me and just learning Ubuntu this is for you..

      Dell XPS M1330
      broadcom wireless card

    • vamsi 2:55 AM on December 2, 2009 Permalink

      That ws really helpful…:-)
      though v didnt gt wat we actually did it fiXed my problem ………..
      ThanXXXX A LOTTTT!!!!

    • Rizz 7:18 AM on December 20, 2009 Permalink

      I was really struggling to get the wireless card working but it works now thank you!!!!

  • Posted at 8:23 PM on November 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    New & Old Ubuntu Backgrounds 

    As many of you know, Ubuntu 8.10 has been released at the end of October.  I was able to upgrade my old ubuntu yesterday. I’m not a big fan of ubuntu but I like to have it on my laptop as my secondary operation system.

    First thing you will notice that ubuntu has a new default background image.  First image is the new background.  Rest are just wallpapers that I found in background folder in ubuntu. This is also an upportunity for me to test Lightbox plugin I just installed.

    To see these images in full size, just click on one of them and plugin should should take care of the rest. You can also use your array keys in your keybord to switch one to another.

    New Ubuntu BackgrounSimple Ubuntu Wallpaperspace-02space-03space-04space-05space-01jupiter

     

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