[clue-tech] installfest followup

[Brian Gibson]

I've been shopping for a wireless card and remembered
that some people at the installfest were having issues
with wireless.  surprise surprise. 

Anyhow, for those looking for supported wireless
hardware, here's a shortlist:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware

Unfortunately the list does not indicate if the
adapter is USB2.0, PCI, or whatever.  A USB2.0 adapter
is a good option for those who do not have a free
PCMCIA/miniPCI slot and their internal wireless
adapter on their laptop is not supported, which was
the situation with someone at the installfest IIRC.


--- Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all the large number who came out to make
> the event a success.
> 
> Dave and I were able to help Al Yuhaz get his older
> dual boot Win98
> and Xubuntu PC up and rolling. For those who try
> this, the Ubuntu
> LiveCD installer overruns the screen, and the
> buttons to click are off
> the bottom of the screen. Use keystrokes ALT-F to go
> to next screen,
> and use ALT-TAB to backup to the correct choice when
> the system is
> ready to write the partitions.
> 
> Unforunately the edubuntu install on Al's second PC
> failed, and we ran
> out of time to work with it.
> 
> Also, something had fudged the partition table on
> this Win98 drive, so
> the Ubuntu installer did not setup his windows
> partition in the grub
> menu. Something had altered the first partition on
> the windows
> harddrive as type Xenix instead of the correct
> fat32. After correcting
> that and adding the typical boot stanza to grub, to
> wit
> 
> title win 98
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> 
> Windows booted with no problems.
> 
> Also many users (like Al) are not pleased with the
> Ubuntu choices of
> "hiddenmenu" and only a 3 second timeout to make
> choices! These are
> easy to fix in the grub menu.
> 
> Manfred had a system that failed to start the
> desktop - complaining
> about the status of a .....rc file. The answer to
> this problem was:
> 
> The particular Linux distro he was using did not
> like the permissions
> setting for his home directory. For whatever
> reasons, his home
> directory had typical permissions 755 (full access
> by owner, r/o and
> directory acess to group and world), but the distro
> required 700 (no
> access by anyone except owener).
> 
> Much oohing and ahhing over the tiny little OLPC
> laptop on display.
> 
> -- 
> Collins Richey
>      If you fill your heart with regrets of
> yesterday and the worries
>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful
> for.
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