Hi Daniel, indeed the CL is how i solved my problem, but that is completely beside the point. We're talking about the User Experience bug on Jockey. Jockey is often ineffective in installing wifi, there's a bug written against it. end of story
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Daniel Stone <webmas...@catcodesigns.net>wrote: > While hardware not detected is troublesome.. documentation on getting the > wireless chip to work is documented. > Ubuntu and linux often need modification to work or function as the end > user would like( this is a known learning curve) > The solution can be found easily because it is not just on debian site but > several other sites as well. > Even though this may make an end user find the solution this is a fact that > must be tackled with many items in the transition to linux > depending on what a user wants to do in linux. > > The command line in linux is a common tool. It should be discovered not > avoided. > > ** Changed in: new-user-experience-team > Status: New => Invalid > > ** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu) > Status: Confirmed => Opinion > > -- > Jockey user experience nightmare for installation of Ubuntu on machines > requiring b43 and b43-legacy wireless driver > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578970 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Jockey driver manager: New > Status in New User Experience Project: Invalid > Status in NULL Project: Invalid > Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: Opinion > > Bug description: > The Jockey user experience is awful when Ubuntu (currently 10.04) is > installed on a machine with a wi-fi interface that requires either the b43 > or b43-legacy driver. Jockey should automatically find, provide, correctly > install and activate the proprietary b43 or b43-legacy wireless drivers. > Instead not only does it fail in various ways, no troubleshooting > information is provided to the user about how to apply workarounds for the > Jockey bug(s), such as the need to connect to the Internet some other way > and run the script to work b43-fwcutter package or ndiswrapper or bmcwl > sources. > > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/jockey/+bug/578970/+subscribe > -- Jockey user experience nightmare for installation of Ubuntu on machines requiring b43 and b43-legacy wireless driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578970 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
