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I have made a decision. I am aborting this experiment for now. I realize that many factors have to come together in order to make what I want to accomplish happen. I know well the shortcomings of...

OK update: Ran the Alt CD and things went well to the point of the partitioning. Chose Guided: Resize Mater Partition and use freed space. Got:

for some unknown reason impossible to resize this...

Ok, no joy on adding in the commands to the kernel thingy at F6 went back and selected the safe graphics mode option. Very similar results. I did burn an alt CD so while I am waiting for some...

Dstew, could one enter those commands at the point where this code (above) stalls like you would at the cursor of the command line in a terminal?

Just tried it again and got a string of:...

Readying an HPa1025c with a 200 gb HDD and 1 gb of RAM. Windows XP all backed up and trimmed down. Plenty of disk space left. Did a defrag of the drive after removing crap and cleaning up. Getting...

Not sure if this question is related (or related enough). If a person were to download and burn a fresh Live DVD of 8.04 on a given day would have download contain everything, fixes, patches,...

That has been my experience so far. This may not be the case for everyone.

just wanted to jump in here and say I experimented with both and found if I enabled DHCP the connection was severed. The only way it will work at all, wired or wireless is in "roaming mode". Not at...

New installation of Hardy, 8.04//EeePc 4G Surf//2 Gb ram

I have been reading and reading for a more exact match for my problem but not finding precisely the same issue being discussed. I find that...

One obvious thing that I find works at the network level is to bring down the connections menu and click on your connection to reacquire it. I find that even on my house network which should never be...

Whew!...That's why we love the noobie forum. LOL> I just had the very same thing happen and guess what, you were right there for me. Thanks.

I found this procedure. It pertained to 7.10 but I could not find any significant differences in it that would seem to cause it not to work;

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install...

sorry to go off on my own here but i was having so much trouble with the changes i had made that i decided to untangle the mess. I used the live dvd and reinstalled Hardy. I then got all the updates...

i couldn't find out anything about this error message so I decided to go ahead with the rest of your process. When I type the cmd sudo modprobe ndiswrapper it takes it and goes directly to the next...

Ok sorry I am such a twit. <LOL. I did get the driver installed using what you outlined and what is left of my brain. It shows up:
driver installed
device (1969:2048 ) present (alternate driver:...

OK, I found a download of xp drivers for this card and d/l to the Desktop. It was a zip file and I right click selected extract here. it coughed up a file folder named 'lan' I used the cmds you...

still searching for drivers. Linux version drivers for this specific card...is that what you have in mind?

Meanwhile concerning this wired connection: It is currently running on manual...

got everything activated and found and installed the ndiswrapper. Now looking for the correct atheros drivers not sure how best to find them. This, as I said, is an EeePc 4G surf the specs say...

Thanks for sticking with me here. I did as you said and searched for ndiswrapper in the synaptic and it is not there. SO...download it from someplace?

Interesting development: I disconnected that USB cable. I shut down, I unplugged the AC, I removed the battery, I made coffee. I came back and installed the batt. restarted and the miniBeast now...

Got the files you specified. Went to install the build-essential one. Got "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libc6-dev|libc-dev"

Are these file understood to be toward the goal of restoring...

ok, not to derail this momentum we have going here but I did a little experimenting and ran a USB cable direct from my cable modem to the Eeepc and it recognised the connection First sign of life so...

As above I went through the "upgrade" which went uneventfully. After that: NO INTERNET CONNECTIONS OF ANY KIND AT ALL! I expected to have to do some work in the case of the wireless but there is...

HELLO?? This guy's not alone on this. Any help coming?? No connection AT ALL of any kind after upgrade.
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