Ubuntu Phase 2 - Networking - Complete!

Yippee! Itś quarter past 12, and I just got the wireless card working! Holy cow! I have to admit that it was quite an effort to troll through the Ubuntu newsgroups, and eventually had to do some pretty complicated stuff using something called ndiswrapper to get it to work ... but it eventually did, and now I am posting wirelessly!

Time to sleep ...

Ubuntu Phase 2 - Networking

So, back to Ubuntu ... now that I got it installed on my PC, the next step is to actually get it connected to the Internet. Now, this is not quite as easy as it sounds because - at Killaineś, we use the, um, public wireless network. So, for this old Omnibook 900, I had to find a wireless card (a friend at work lent me a PCMCIA wireless card) - however, that doesn quite work off the bat.

But ... I also got a crossover Ethernet cable, and connected the Ubuntu PC to my regular PC (with wireless), and I able to share the wireless connection between PCs! So ... that means that my Ubuntu PC is connected to the network - and I updating my blog from my Ubuntu PC!

Now, back to trying to get wireless to work ...

Ubuntu!

Yay! Successful installation!

I had to download and install the "text installer", rather than using the Live CD - it looks like my old PC just didn't have the RAM to run the Live CD (192Mb).

It was pouring when I woke up this morning, so an Ubuntu installation seemed like a good thing to do this morning. Now that it's installed, time to go out and do something (I'm off for a paddle).

Ubuntu Continues ...

Still trying to get Ubuntu installed on an HP Omnibook 900B. I had to reburn the CD at a slower speed 'cause the archaic CD drive was having trouble reading it. It's now starting up ... I think ... but it's taking a very, very long time. Hmmm.

Cool Ubuntu

I successfully made a "Live CD" for Ubuntu - meaning that I could just boot my PC directly into Ubuntu - also meaning that I could play around with it before actually installing it on a PC.

It seems to work really well - it came up with the right screen resolutions, and the wireless interface worked right off! It had Firefox installed in it, and it worked right off as well. All in all, looks very cool - I'll install it on my other PC when I get a chance ...

Ubuntu

I'm currently downloading Ubuntu! Ubuntu is an open source operating system based on Linux (as I understand it). Ubuntu goes one further than other Linux distributions by being an all-inclusive download, including a windows-like GUI, OpenOffice and other stuff. I'm going to install it on an old Laptop that I've got lying around.

So, why bother? Well, I always thought it would be fun to try to install a Linux OS on a PC - just to see if I could do it. One of those "staying on top of technology" things. (I also just installed Apple's Safari Browser on my PC a week or two ago - just to see what it was like).