tomreid
March 21st, 2010, 01:26 AM
Hi all,
I'm thinking of transitioning my Dell Mini 10V netbook to 10.04, but I have a question about how to really test the hardware.
When I run the system and chose to "try Ubuntu out without making any changes to my system", the first thing I notice is that the wifi does not work.
This is fairly normal, as the "hardware drivers" menu tells me I need to download and activate a propitiatory broadcom driver to make the wifi work. But to complete the install of the broadcom driver the system tells me I need to re-boot. Surely if I reboot a system running in "live cd mode" I'll just lose the changes as my understanding is that each time I boot from a live cd it just loads the "vanilla" Ubuntu?
So how can I really test that this broadcom driver will install and function properly?
As an aside, the Alpha version of 10.04 seems to have a bug, when I try to download the broadcom driver, I get the error: SystemError: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/gcc_4.4.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
I'm pretty sure this is a bug, as when I tried out 9.10 running as a live cd in the same machine, the process seemed to work fine, it's just I got stuck as I'm pretty sure if I re-boot, I'll just be back at the vanilla install agan.
cheers
I'm thinking of transitioning my Dell Mini 10V netbook to 10.04, but I have a question about how to really test the hardware.
When I run the system and chose to "try Ubuntu out without making any changes to my system", the first thing I notice is that the wifi does not work.
This is fairly normal, as the "hardware drivers" menu tells me I need to download and activate a propitiatory broadcom driver to make the wifi work. But to complete the install of the broadcom driver the system tells me I need to re-boot. Surely if I reboot a system running in "live cd mode" I'll just lose the changes as my understanding is that each time I boot from a live cd it just loads the "vanilla" Ubuntu?
So how can I really test that this broadcom driver will install and function properly?
As an aside, the Alpha version of 10.04 seems to have a bug, when I try to download the broadcom driver, I get the error: SystemError: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/gcc_4.4.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
I'm pretty sure this is a bug, as when I tried out 9.10 running as a live cd in the same machine, the process seemed to work fine, it's just I got stuck as I'm pretty sure if I re-boot, I'll just be back at the vanilla install agan.
cheers