Help with ubuntu (26)

1 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-07 00:48 ID:uIzvzuhw

I have just install Ubuntu on my old laptop, the only use of the laptop was just browse the internet and some games. But I got on the internet using a Wi-fi USB Adapter and Ubuntu doesn't seem to know what to do with it. So is their a way or an program that solves this problem?

2 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-07 01:03 ID:4sIYL+Ra

use pc-bsd instead.

3 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-07 02:05 ID:uIzvzuhw

whats thats, a diffrent Linux?

4 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-07 02:52 ID:4sIYL+Ra

>>3
no, it's real unix, not loonix.
http://www.pcbsd.org/

5 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-07 12:04 ID:Ijm7/m9G

>>1
You should try to search the ubuntu forums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/ ) for your Wifi stick model, or ask your question there, the guys there are very nice even to complete beginners.

Generally, it will be pretty hard to help you without knowing what kind of USB adapter you have. If you don't know the model name, execute "lsusb" in a console window while the adapter is attached and post the results, lsusb will give you a list of all USB devices attached to your PC.

Post the lsusb resluts and your USB adapters name here and I'll try to help you.

>>2,4
Care to make a "OMG LUNIX SUX AND USE REAL UNIX" thread for this instead of hijacking other threads?

6 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-07 19:54 ID:Heaven

> Care to make a "OMG LUNIX SUX AND USE REAL UNIX" thread for this instead of hijacking other threads?

i wasn't hijacking the thread, i was trying to help >>1 with his problem, which is that he's chosen to use one of the most badly broken linux distributions out there. and there aren't really any linux distributions that are eisier to install and use than pc-bsd is.

7 Name: Redhatter : 2006-10-10 03:10 ID:Heaven

>>1 To clarify what >>5 said... there's a myriad of different wireless USB chipsets out there. Some supported by Linux, others not. To run lsusb, you'll need administrative privileges though. So on Ubuntu (and similar rootless environments), use sudo lsusb.

(Ohh, and don't worry about >>2... if we don't feed the BSD troll, we won't have any problems.)

8 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-10 16:58 ID:Heaven

>>7
FYI: (K)ubuntu will let me run lsusb without root. But sudo lsusb is probably a good idea, just to be on the safe side.

9 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-10-11 02:16 ID:Heaven

Switch to TRON

10 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2006-11-12 04:54 ID:k7qsJ/xn

Maybe try Knoppix (knoppix.org) or Slax (slax.org)? Live CDs might detect the WiFi adapter and Just Work, then you could install onto the hard drive like a regular Linux distro.

That said, unless you need to run a Linux distro, it's not a hijack to suggest a different OS that'll do the job. Support for WiFi adapters in FreeBSD and OpenBSD is quite good.

11 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-01-24 19:13 ID:xcnF+RSr

>>1
Well, man. Do

sudo lsusb -v

to find the info on your USB wifi thing. Then search google and ubuntuforums.org and linuxquestions.org using the info. If you're lucky there may be drivers available, but you may have to compile the driver yourself from the source code. This is the key. And then, it's delicious. But if you do this there's a chance that the guys at linuxquestions.org will remember you, so I can't recommend this to amateurs, you know? So you should just stick to ubuntuforums.org for now, right?

12 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-01-26 09:46 ID:Heaven

>>1 why don't just just install win98 and solve all your problems.

13 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-01-27 16:26 ID:xcnF+RSr

>>12

windows 98? sure, enjoy your blue screen every time you try to do something for longer than five minutes

14 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-02-06 22:10 ID:qKfMBsqp

>>13

YHBT. YHL. HAND.

15 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-03-18 00:51 ID:DhHmT/lK

You are kidding arent you ?
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

16 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-03-18 05:54 ID:Heaven

>>15

lol

17 Name: Redhatter : 2007-03-20 01:04 ID:Heaven

Ohh gee, look who learned how to use the clipboard. :-)

>>15 See that big juicy IEC connector going into your PSU? Pull it out, and suck on it hard whilst the other end is plugged in and turned on.

Apple never gave up, and never moved to Windows. They might be capable of running Windows, but Apple computers still ship with MacOS X. ;-)

Plus, if what China is up to is any barometer, we could all be using Linux in a few years.

18 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-03-20 01:41 ID:Yqzkdh/3

The trolls are out in force tonight, I see.

19 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-03-26 05:37 ID:5fHUOCuf

> Plus, if what China is up to is any barometer, we could all be using Linux in a few years.

nah. The only people that care are techies that want something new/different to play with or the people who want to get away from MS Windows or the ones that have had Linux installed in their behalf. The rest don't care enough about the RMS's free software philosophy to bother with "Linux's shortcomings". "Linux's shortcomings" has nothing to do with the GNU/Linux operating system but can be attributed to stupid laws that prevent users from sharing and writing secure software and hardware and software vendors that rely on tactics to ensure a monopoly on their products.

20 Name: J3ph_42!dXldY3fJbY : 2007-04-07 18:58 ID:Heaven

>>17
YHBT

21 Name: J3ph_42!dXldY3fJbY : 2007-04-07 18:59 ID:Heaven

>>19
YHBT

22 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-05-09 19:38 ID:Heaven

Win98 FTW!

23 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-07-30 14:30 ID:eXwpz4CR

>>22 liar

24 Name: Redhatter : 2007-08-02 07:41 ID:Heaven

>>19 Yeah... the thing is, China has always had a big piracy problem with respect to Microsoft products, and open source is a cheap way out.

Also there's the Loongson architecture, which is gaining in popularity. Indeed, the machine I'm typing this on, is a Lemote Fulong minicomputer ... 660MHz Loongson2E (MIPS-3 subset), the performance is quite impressive, and it's a breath of fresh air to use a PC that's actually designed from the ground up to run Linux.

>>20 & >>21: I can speak in acronyms too... Care to define what that specific acronym means in this context?

25 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-08-02 12:14 ID:T8QlHamB

>>24
That is true, Linux is a good solution for copyright infringers, but people in general prefer not to change what they already know and are often unwilling to make the investments necessary to make a change. To them, the investment required to change completely to free software is too large.

Those Loongson computers are sweet. I'd love to get a few of those for all my low power computing requirements. How fast does it boot? Did you get yours from China?

Also, see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yhbt

26 Name: Redhatter : 2007-08-02 13:01 ID:Heaven

As far as copyright infringement... it's probably worth noting that the Chinese government seem to be very pro-opensource, to the point they switched to OASIS OpenDocument as the official document format.

Given the cost of hardware required to run Windows XP/Vista, Linux suddenly sounds very attractive when 1600CNY buys a small box, about the size of a CD-ROM drive, that runs Linux, and comes with all the usual desktop tools. All it needs is a keyboard, mouse, and monitor (or television set).

I was lucky enough to have two of them donated so I could port Gentoo to them. Unfortunately, one decided to send me smoke signals, and thus is on a trip back to China, but otherwise they've been excellent.

I've never actually gotten around to timing them per-se... but they seem to boot and run faster than my laptop. Compilation times aren't necessarily faster, but they feel more responsive.

Comparison: Pentium 4M 1.7GHz w/ 512MB RAM, versus Loongson2E 660MHz w/ 512MB RAM

Plus, they draw 12V at 4A... versus my laptop, which draws 15V at 5A.

I/O wise, they're lacking ... the bus only runs at 66MHz, the northbridge is FPGA-based, and the memory (DDR1 SO-DIMMs) is clocked at 108MHz. This can cause problems when the disk is under heavy load (I get crackly sound), but is tolerable most of the time.

The next revision of the Loongson2 series, the 2F, apparently will reach 1GHz or more, and fully implement the mips64r2 ISA. Hopefully if they can sort out the I/O performance, they'll wind up with a really sweet system. :-)

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