[GRLUG] Lubuntu

[Bob Kline]

I got a System76 machine a year or
so ago, and as shipped the wireless
did not function.  I believe I correctly
loaded drivers, including System76's
own batch of stuff.  Nothing.

Eventually I tried Puppy Lunix, and
everything worked fine.  For purposes
intended this was a fix, and the result
covered all my other needs too.

None of the Remix versions worked.
I tried the latest version of Ubuntu -
10.10 - and still the wireless didn't
work.  Eventually I tried Lubuntu,
another lite version.

Works fine.  Comes up and shuts
down fast.  Uses the standard Ubuntu
package libraries, so for all practical
purposes it's just Ubuntu.

Now, why is this?  While it doesn't
rate right up there with life's biggest
problems, why must one go from
version to version to get the correct
support? i.e., if Puppy and Lubuntu
can come up with the proper drivers,
why not the main version - Ubuntu?
I'd of thought by now that wide ranging
hardware support would be seen as a
major competitive advantage with windoz.

OK, now on to Broadcom chips.  The
latest version of Ubuntu supposedly has
support for some of those chips now.

I have an older Acer Aspire 5000 laptop,
and I loaded Ubuntu on it, and the
Broadcom drivers.  Nothing.  I can run the
wireless off a USB conntion and a Linksys
module.  Works fine.  But it's clunky to do
it that way.  The machine is about 5 years
old now, so I guess that means support
will be long coming, if ever. Of course
windoz XP supported the wireless, but I
otherwise didn't want to suffer through
that.

    -- Bob

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