On 09/08/2014 09:20 PM, David R. Wilson wrote:
Hi guys,
Upgrade done on two computers from Ubuntu 12.04.
The hard part:
Getting wireless to work on 14.04 on the laptop.
The solution:
Shut the laptop down
Bring it back up in Windows
Turn wireless on
Shut the laptop down
Bring it back up in Linux
.......
Did I ever mention the UEFI stuff and Windows are annoying?
There was a good side to this story. The mouse didn't have to move.
I didn't have to reboot Windows a second (or third .... ) time.
That does not fix the indicator on the wireless button (F12), but if
your using Gnome on 14.04 the airplane symbol will tell you when the
wifi is enabled (when it is gone).
I guess I will take a look at the LED indicator tomorrow.
The upgrade on the desktop from Ubuntu 12.04 (quad core Asus board) went
well. No significant problems. The upgrade on the laptop ended up
being a wipe and reload. That was about a 700 GB restore project.
There are times backups are worth the hassle :-).
Dave
Chris McQuistion and I have a running "fuss" over whether to do in-place
upgrades or clean installs. My experience with in-place upgrades is at
best mixed.
Last week, I did a clean(ish) install of Ubuntu 14.04 onto a ThinkPad
R61 - well established, not bleeding edge hardware. "Clean(ish)" means
I partitioned the hard disk prior to the actual install, pre-loading the
/home partition with a copy of data from another perfectly good
(L)ubuntu system.
Now the "glidepad" pointer and associated buttons do NOT work but the
"eraser head" pointer and its associated buttons work fine. Really?
I know the hardware is good because I can plug in other disks with other
versions of Ubuntu (et al) [or even *GASP* Windows XP] and the glidepad
works fine. In 2014?? C'mmon MAN!
You may note that the fine folks at RedHat (and by extension, CentOS)
tell you straight away not to even try to do an in-place upgrade from [
RHEL | CentOS ] 5 to 6.
I hate to say this but:
Ubuntu 6.06 for its time was damn solid
Ubuntu 8.04 was solid with a dash of niggles
Ubuntu 10.04 more niggles
Ubuntu 12.04 smack me in the face with all the user interface
BULLSHIT and more and more niggles
Ubuntu 14.04 *MORE* UI issues and this is long term support?
Oh, and did I tell you about running the Mate UI on this laptop (a
ThinkPad T61, Ubuntu 12.04)? If I use the volume control button to
reduce the sound volume all the way down to mute, I have to log out of
my Mate session back to the [ g | l | x ] dm login menu to un-mute the
audio. WTF??!
Oh by the way, I did install Fedora 20 on another system here. Jury
still awaiting instructions.
Lucky for somebody that I don't use my work Windows 8.1.1.1 system more
than I do.
Howard
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