Comments on: Ubuntu is here http://mattmccullough.net/2006/06/21/ubuntu-is-here/ Random nonsense Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Luke http://mattmccullough.net/2006/06/21/ubuntu-is-here/#comment-280 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:56:56 +0000 https://matthewmccullough.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/ubuntu-is-here/#comment-280 Ubuntu is a great system. My beef with it is that stupid “sudo instead of root” idea. Maybe I’m old school but I just don’t like doing things this way. I usually enable normal root opeation right after I install:

sudo passwd root

But that’s just me.

Re: wireless card – before you invest money in it, make sure that the card will work with linux. Setting up wireless is a major pain in the ass.

You most likely will need to use ndiswrapper and the windows drivers. You usually need two packages: ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-modules. The second one should be included Dapper’s kernel, so you just need to install utils.

If you don’t have the module loaded, you can always install from source. I recommend compiling it into deb packages insead of normal make+make install procedure. This way apt can keep track of the added packages and you can easily uninstall them later. I recently blogged about this.

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