Ubuntu 6.10 - Edgy Eft

Cormic

Ubuntu 6.10 has been released.

I downloaded the CD and did a fresh install on a spare 40gb disk I had.

The install want perfectly but then again I am using some pretty boring hardware (Dell Optiplex GX270) so I would not expect anything else.

Some things I have noticed.

- Firefox 2.0 which was also released yesterday - it has a spell checker which will help many boards.ie users
- Faster boot time
- New theme - I don't like the background as I think it is too pale.
- Tomboy notes included - I found this app a while ago thanks to Tux Magazine - it is a great little app for note taking.

I will update as I continue to use.

generalmiaow

I'm planning to get me some edgy eft as soon as I have the spare time. Good to see boot time has improved - it improved a good bit with Dapper when it came out too, it was horribly slow with 5.10 and before.

Basq

Have Ubuntu improved support for Broadcom wireless cards? Absolute nightmare to get working on 6.06...!

Still haven't got mine working!

Khannie

I found an article on broadcom on 6.06. You need to disable and blacklist the kernel module that comes with it and use ndiswrapper instead. I have mine working just fine. HTH.

Basq

Khannie wrote:

I found an article on broadcom on 6.06. You need to disable and blacklist the kernel module that comes with it and use ndiswrapper instead. I have mine working just fine. HTH.

Cheers for the info Khannie. Will give it a try.

Not too proficient on Unix commands but i found a guide to setting up my Broadcom card on Ubuntu but ended up getting lost with the lack of feedback from the commands i put in.

steveland?

Khannie wrote:

I found an article on broadcom on 6.06. You need to disable and blacklist the kernel module that comes with it and use ndiswrapper instead. I have mine working just fine. HTH.

Same here, have an internal one in my laptop.

I checked the paths for all the commands the guide I found used and just threw it all into a shell script. Executed that and BAM, wireless worked...

Of course this is on 5.10 because 6.06 never worked with my card...

Khannie

Squill wrote:

Not too proficient on Unix commands but i found a guide to setting up my Broadcom card on Ubuntu but ended up getting lost with the lack of feedback from the commands i put in.

The guide I had did take some fiddling but I'll have a look at home to see if I have it bookmarked and let you know.

The process was essentially as I described though: blacklist the broadcom module, install ndiswrapper, install windows drivers, cross fingers.

Basq

That's be great Khannie.. cheers!

Illkillya

Khannie wrote:

The guide I had did take some fiddling but I'll have a look at home to see if I have it bookmarked and let you know.

The process was essentially as I described though: blacklist the broadcom module, install ndiswrapper, install windows drivers, cross fingers.

I had to do the same for my Belkin USB wireless adapter. I had no issues in Breezy or Dapper, but Edgy picked up the hardware and loaded the driver rt73usb, which didn't work. Had to blacklist this and use ndiswrapper... there was a small problem in that Edgy packaged a very outdated version of ndiswrapper which was no good to me, and since the wireless was my only route to internet, I would have been screwed only for the fact that I had ndiswrapper-1.8 backed up on /home partition.

Khannie

Oh yeah, that reminds me, I had to build ndiswrapper from source also (this is straightforward).

stevenmu

Khannie wrote:

The process was essentially as I described though: blacklist the broadcom module, install ndiswrapper, install windows drivers, cross fingers.

Ah, that explains where I went wrong, I forgot the 'cross fingers' step

Actually just got it working without ndiswrapper though thanks to this post on ubuntuforums.org. Very simple, it just worked right away for me, and I'm not too sure (this is my first linux install) but I think it's more 'native' than ndiswrapper so should perform better ?

Khannie

That looks like a fine solution alright (with the only possible downside being the need to update after kernel updates, which are regular enough in the ubuntu world, though ofc, you can fix the kernel version to your current one).

I've had no performance issues with ndiswrapper mind you. I do use a wired connection for the machine I play UT2004 on though.

philologos

I'm going to install Kubuntu for this time. I just seem to like KDE more than Gnome. Ditching windows forever on my PC this time as well... as Vista just seems too resource heavy and too forcing for my liking... Hopefully Wine will find some way in the future for DX10 support.