No Ubuntu Today
Posted on April 24, 2007
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I noticed that the 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release of Ubuntu was recently announced. My work laptop has been giving me some grief lately so on a whim I grabbed the ISO, booted from it and installed Ubuntu.
The laptop is a two year old Toshiba Tecra, running the 1.60GHz Pentium M and Centrino chipset. It has 1GB of ram and a 80GB 7200 rpm hard drive. Oh, and an ATI Radeon X600 video card. It may be getting old, but I’m still quite happy with it. Happy enough that I’ve already worn out one keyboard and the “e” on this current keyboard is starting to get a bit dodgy…
Back to the install:
Everything worked great except networking. Sometimes it noticed the WiFi adapter (built-in Centrino chipset) but I never coerced it to actually function — even with the public side (no key) of my fon access point. I didn’t fare much better with the built-in Ethernet adapter either. While it was always “seen”, it showed little interest in functioning with DHCP.
Unfortunately, I need this machine to be up and ready to go, so after jacking around for an hour or two I threw in the towel and went back to our company license of XP Pro. Bummer. Aside from the networking issues, I think I liked what I saw.
All in all, a rather disappointing experiment. Previous versions of Ubuntu ran fine on this notebook… I guess someday when I have more time to experiment I’ll try again — probably as a dual-boot so I don’t have a time crunch to get it running ASAP.
I’m not bashing Linux. This isn’t a rant. Just a disappointment.
Tags: laptop, linux, network, open-source, tecra, toshiba, Ubuntu
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Solve your Ubuntu problems by going to the forums and asking. I got all my issues solved in minutes. They are really great to work with — all the people who read and write on ubuntuforums.org.
Hi Elwyn, I’ll definitely try that on the next attempt.