Re: Hardy Heron

["Jay Kramer" <user=102@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 
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