Matt,
Please do bring this to the meeting on Thursday and we'll do what we
can to help out. The meeting this week will be at the old Masonic hall
in Springfield. I think Larry can give you the exact address for
mapquest.
-Mike
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 09:08 -0800, Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:47:28AM -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> >
> >>http://www.openbsd.org/
> >>
> >>boot the ISO: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/i386/cd38.iso
> >>
> >>either your card will be working or it won't. no silly binary wrappers,
> >>no messy modules, and definitely no bloat.
> >
> >
> > Most likely, it won't. I don't see how that's an improvement.
> >
>
> Well, it appears I was mistaken....
>
> Ubuntu does in fact come to life after I log in with the user account I
> set up - it just takes 45 minutes to do so.... this is a good thing
> really, since I've been wanting to slow down and smell the roses more
> often..... <g>
>
> Clearly this isn't the machine to be running Ubuntu, or prolly anything
> else w/ a rich GUI.... since it's just a "sit on the couch and surf the
> net" machine I'll need to try Plan B....
>
> Is it seeing the wireless card and the network properly? No clue really
> - stuff took so long to load up I never could really tell what was
> available to tweek. I do know that when I eventually got into a browser
> that I couldn't go anywhere... pinging didn't work either....
>
> BSD appeared to load up just fine - I watched it zoom past dealing with
> the wireless card and then landed me at the shell... groovy - now what?
> If I knew what to do at this point I could fix Ubuntu (at least before I
> found out how slow it would be).... pinging the world didn't work...
>
> Small Damn Linux seemed usable if I could just get on the wireless
> network... any chance I can bring it to the next meeting and maybe get
> some help? By the way, when/where is the next meeting?
>
> I know the wireless router that this thing used to connect to before
> replacing my DSL router is alive, since I have another notebook on site
> that can see it, so I know it's broadcasting....
>
> Matthew S. Jarvis
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