ubuntu woes....

JackKelly

Decided to give linux another go so went and dl'd ubuntu. Installed, got everything running.Grand.

Unfortunately, i can't get my wireless card working with it. Not sure why, or what to do. (its a netgear WG311) I know it can see it so the card is still ok, but i presume there is a driver issue. A problem i have no idea how to resolve. Is there a specific driver i can get? Using the terminal, how could i go about finding out the prob/fixing it. Any help?

Also, I was looking around the ubuntu CD and it was filled with programs to install. (under the ext .deb) Great i think, one of these must be able to help me, so i go to click them. The archieve progam ubuntu uses cant read them!wtf is with that? How im a suppose to open them?

Any help appreciated

niallb

You can install the packages with a program called synaptic. It will make sure to also install anything else your choice needs to run.

It's called package manager on the menu.

If you're comfortable with a terminal,
apt-get and apt-cache are a lot faster.

For the netgear you'll need madwifi,
should have been installed by ubuntu.
Was the card installed when you set up the system?

NiallB

mp3guy

wireless is a bit iffy, but with enough work you can get it working, with rt2x00 drivers, ndiswrapper or just built in rt2500 support, best bet is the ubuntuforums

pickarooney

Any way to make fonts look less ugly? I just switched from Mandrake to Ubuntu, installed msttcorefonts but everything is still displaying poorly.

scojones

http://members.boards.ie/sjones/Belkin-54G-WirelessCard-Ubuntu-HOWTO.txt

very very very badly written howto by me. Don't even know why I'm posting it

mneylon

mp3guy wrote:

wireless is a bit iffy, but with enough work you can get it working, with rt2x00 drivers, ndiswrapper or just built in rt2500 support, best bet is the ubuntuforums

I suppose that depends on your wireless card. I use Cisco Aironet on both my desktop and laptop and it works perfectly

Khannie

Check out ndiswrapper for wireless. It's a bit of a messy way to get things working (uses windows drivers) but it's maturing well. Worked a treat for me.

philologos

theres a thing on the ubuntu forums about this
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683&page=3&pp=10

should work the exact same way as Broadcom just load the different .inf and .sys into it

tck

pickarooney wrote:

Any way to make fonts look less ugly? I just switched from Mandrake to Ubuntu, installed msttcorefonts but everything is still displaying poorly.

You switched your entire distro because you couldn't manage to get the fonts the way you wanted them ?

mp3guy

pickarooney wrote:

Any way to make fonts look less ugly? I just switched from Mandrake to Ubuntu, installed msttcorefonts but everything is still displaying poorly.

in general or certain programs or certain sites?

Either way

sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-arabic
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-asian
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-chinese
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-chinese-big
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-european
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-japanese
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-japanese-big
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-phonetic
sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
sudo fc-cache -f -v

sudo gedit /etc/fonts/local.conf

Find this part:

...
<!-- Uncomment below to enable the freetype autohinter module -->
<!--
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
-->
...

Replace with

<match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>