Hardy Heron

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) the other day. I had 
3 non-problems: 
1. Network manager does not connect to my home network (WEP 128). 
The problem here was that the upgrade did not copy the bcm43xx 
firmware. The 2.6.24 kernel needs a different version. Solution 
download and install bc43-fwcutter version 011. This is done 
automatically by Synaptic. Once I downloaded and installed this using a 
wired connection, wireless came up immediately.  Note that there is a 
URL included in the kernel driver message when it fails to find the 
firmware pointing to linuxwireless.org that provides instructions on 
how tomanually install the firmware. 

2. Sudo gives me a message "unable to resolve host gaflap". 
Just needed to add a parameter to /etc/hosts. 

3. Firefox. The 32-bit firefox stopped working, but both firefox 2 and 
firefox 3 beta 5 were installed. 

So far, what I have seen of Ubuntu has been excellent. I still use SuSE 
on my desktop system at home. 
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Boston Linux and Unix 
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