esj
May 17th, 2008, 05:57 AM
summary of problems:
Laptop:
o WiFi (Intel 3945ABG) not recognized, solution involves back port modules and wicd.
o WiFi solution lost my open VPN management capability.
wife's desktop:
o migration from 7.10 to 8.04 caused random lockups with associated CMOS corruption
o Firefox three plug-ins are not exactly functioning right.
detailed chatter:
On my lap top, everything seemed to work okay except for WiFi. WiFi is an Intel chip, 3945ABG. After following instructions found elsewhere on the net which involved installing back port modules and replacing net manager with wicd, I finally got WiFi working. Unfortunately, I lost open VPN management. The only other management tool I found was KVpnc which, is from my experience, quite user hostile. For example, when importing an openvpn configuration, it expects passwords for IP sec. I can mostly live with the quirks of 8.04 on my laptop except for the open VPN problem. I need that functionality back for work.
On my wife's desktop, the first problem noticed was that Firefox 3 had numerous problems with plug-ins like flash and Java. Given that she's addicted to things like youtube, Pop cap, cheeseburger and the like, this is a serious problem. Solution was to downgrade Firefox to version 2. The second and more serious problem is that her machine locks up at random and sometimes won't reboot unless you power off. Frequently the CMOS is corrupted. Like many of you, my first thought was the CMOS battery is gone. Replaced it, no change. A second thought was thermal overload but again, with additional cooling from an external fan, no change. The only difference was upgrading to 8.04. Which leads me to the conclusion that something in 8.04 is locking up and corrupting CMOS. I've also tried turning off apic but again, no difference.
If you folks, who are much smarter than I am, can't help me with a solution, its time to downgrade to 7.10 and give up 8.04 as a lost cause. I really want to stay with 8.04 if for no other reason than it's a lot less work for me than downgrading would be.
help would really be appreciated.
Laptop:
o WiFi (Intel 3945ABG) not recognized, solution involves back port modules and wicd.
o WiFi solution lost my open VPN management capability.
wife's desktop:
o migration from 7.10 to 8.04 caused random lockups with associated CMOS corruption
o Firefox three plug-ins are not exactly functioning right.
detailed chatter:
On my lap top, everything seemed to work okay except for WiFi. WiFi is an Intel chip, 3945ABG. After following instructions found elsewhere on the net which involved installing back port modules and replacing net manager with wicd, I finally got WiFi working. Unfortunately, I lost open VPN management. The only other management tool I found was KVpnc which, is from my experience, quite user hostile. For example, when importing an openvpn configuration, it expects passwords for IP sec. I can mostly live with the quirks of 8.04 on my laptop except for the open VPN problem. I need that functionality back for work.
On my wife's desktop, the first problem noticed was that Firefox 3 had numerous problems with plug-ins like flash and Java. Given that she's addicted to things like youtube, Pop cap, cheeseburger and the like, this is a serious problem. Solution was to downgrade Firefox to version 2. The second and more serious problem is that her machine locks up at random and sometimes won't reboot unless you power off. Frequently the CMOS is corrupted. Like many of you, my first thought was the CMOS battery is gone. Replaced it, no change. A second thought was thermal overload but again, with additional cooling from an external fan, no change. The only difference was upgrading to 8.04. Which leads me to the conclusion that something in 8.04 is locking up and corrupting CMOS. I've also tried turning off apic but again, no difference.
If you folks, who are much smarter than I am, can't help me with a solution, its time to downgrade to 7.10 and give up 8.04 as a lost cause. I really want to stay with 8.04 if for no other reason than it's a lot less work for me than downgrading would be.
help would really be appreciated.