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Same here. Wireless networking on my laptop under 8.04 is borked following the 6.18.08 updates.

The network config applet works on it for awhile, then asks for the network key (which until the...

Wow, thanks for all the speedy responses. I suppose I'll try the Wine route first, mostly because it's free. Thanks, folks.

I've finally made the switch, and my old laptop is more stable, more responsive, and even runs cooler than it did under Windows. In short, I'm extremely satisfied with my first Linux experience.
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Fixed. I'm not sure about the details, but apparently the default Firefox profile was looking for my preferences/cookies/etc. in the wrong place.

Solution:

Launch Firefox's Profile Manager:
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Another wrinkle: I figured, since I can finally access the network by using the IP, I'd try to set up my network printer, which is hooked up to my WinXP desktop.

I started up the "add new printer"...

I can confirm that entering the server's IP address works. Any ideas why we can't identify the root problem if such a simple workaround does the trick?

Thanks, that last bit will be damned helpful. It was getting annoying, when I didn't know precisely where a file was, to find it in nautilus and then have to open a terminal. Anyhow, problem solved....

I've had to edit more than a few config files to get this rig running with 8.04, so I've gotten somewhat used to the terminal commands necessary to edit a file. But if I navigate to a file in File...

Bump.

Yeah, I've had way too many problems with 8.04, but then again, I have no idea how many of those are owed to my screwy hardware rather than Hardy.

So nobody's worked out yet why some of us can't...

Running Hardy, Firefox 3b5 is doing some really odd things. First, it's not paying attention to my cookies. When I go to my Google homepage, I'm greeted by the 'login' page. Yahoo mail and the Ubuntu...

I can't even get that working. It tells me it "failed to mount the Windows share." The network works properly when I dual-boot into XP, so I don't think I've configured the Windows computers in any...

So, more folks having a similar problem. If anybody can figure out why we can't browse the network, it'd be much appreciated. Heck, I don't even need to serve files to other computers on the network,...

My network connection through my router works fine, internet connection is good, and I can see my existing WinXP network in Ubuntu's File Browser, but when I click the network's icon it "thinks"...

To be on the safe side, or so I thought, in Step 2 I substituted the location of the wireless driver from my manufacturer. But when I run cabextract on the executable, it tells me "no valid cabinets...

I did, and tried to follow the installation instructions, but ended up somehow borking the install and making it so that Hardy kicked into an infinite loop error trying to detect my wireless card...

Pretty please? A way to install ndiswrapper without requiring the Hardy CD?

Anybody?

This should probably be in Absolute Beginners -- hell, all my posts should -- but here goes:

I can't install ndiswrapper as per this thread because during the installation it asks for my Hardy CD....

OK -- I´m apparently an idiot. Trying to install ndiswrapper either through a terminal or Synaptics calls for my Hardy installation CD. I provide it, press Enter. It asks again. I press Enter. And so...

OK, problem solved, apparently. For the unlucky few with this issue:

It's an IRQ conflict, a known issue with certain revisions of the VIA Rhine-II NIC and the Linux kernel. The solution is to add...

Anybody? Any ideas why dhclient would freeze a system? Or why DHCP would (apparently) work flawlessly during the alternate install but not after?

Heh, should've know better than to ask that question around Linux guys!

The problem isn't hardware speed -- my laptop is based around an XP-M 2000+ with 512MB RAM, no speed demon but modern...

This may be the wrong place to ask this, but it looks like my laptop simply isn't going to run Ubuntu.

So, if you had to pick an alternative distro with similar strong points -- ease of use, large...

Not to spam, but I just had an idea. How integrated is the networking stack? Specifically, is there any reason to think my nonfunctional wireless NIC -- which isn't what I'm trying to get working...