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I dist-upgrade my system to Hardy. I also had some problems but have not assessed them fully. I have found that in the past, after upgrading my system, that patches became available shortly after that fixed the problems. Jay On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: > 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. > -- > -- > Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id: 537C5846 > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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