Upgrade to v10.04 and now no wireless

[bigtel]

I have just done a double upgrade from version 8 to 9 and then to 10.04 LTS running as Xubuntu.

I have a 3com wireless network card which has always worked in the past but just will not flicker into life now.

Does anyone know a fix for this? (Bearing in mind I can not now connect to the internet from that PC.)

I also am having real problems with the running of the laptop now. I am having messages coming up about being unable to mount certain drives and the whole laptop is 'hanging' and I am having to power down in order to restart.

Any help would be appreciated here.

Thanks.

[P4man]

Can you boot a livecd and see if everything works there? If you upgraded from 8.10 > 9.04 > 9.10 > 10.04 I wouldnt be too shocked something went wrong. Lets see if thats it or if the new kernel doesnt like your hardware.

[bigtel]

Is there a way I can fresh install 10.04 without loosing my current data?

[mörgæs]

All described here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580857

[bigtel]

Thanks for your reply.

What about downgrading the installation, is that possible?

Could I reinstall v 9.04..?

[mörgæs]

Following my first link leads to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rsion_timeline
where you can see that 9.04 is not supported.

Downgrading is not possible in Ubuntu, and I don't see why you would do so. Just install the version you want and voila!