Late this weekend I got a bug in my butt to re-discover Linux. I had run Fedora Core 5 on my MythTV, but I had heard a lot about the Ubuntu distributions that are out and about right now.
My upstairs Dell that I purchased in 2001, has been sitting mostly dormant since I got my laptop. I decided it was a good candidate to test-drive these distributions so I began the arduous process of downloading the Ubuntu installation.
I got it installed successfully but quickly learned that it didn’t do a great job of detecting wireless networking cards, specifically the Broadcom based Linksys wireless card I had in the Dell. It took me a few hours, but I got the networking going. All I had left to do was to set up the samba shares so I could get to my printer from the network, but I was getting fed up.
I followed the guides for configuring things, those files were right where they were supposed to be. However, the last step was restarting the process and the command wouldn’t work. I tried everything to find out where it was but I just couldn’t work it out.
So I decided that I would go back to familiar country… Fedora Core. I downloaded the DVD iso, but ruined two DVDs trying to get one that would boot fully. It didn’t work out. So I tried the new Fedora Core LiveCD route. That worked, I could get booted into the LiveCD but had no option to actually install the distro. And it didn’t like my network card either.
So now I’m going to download the classic, full distribution. I know what to do about the network card, so that part doesn’t bother me. What does bother me in the slow download speeds and the waiting around to get my upstairs computer back in action.
Not bad for a snowy evening home! 🙂
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