Jaunty Jackalope got my wireless working again!

Something† broke my wifi on this Dell Inspiron 1525, and now Jaunty's brought it back again! Beauty! And setup was just as easy on this computer as it is on my Nintendo DS, viz., enter the WEP 128 password and accept all the defaults.


†As I recall, the Dell Vista crashed and burned, so I installed Ubuntu Hardy, which did not have the Dell proprietary drivers for wireless, so I upgraded (eventually) to Ubuntu Jaunty, which does. Just got around to setting up wireless again, today.

Jaunty Jackalope

Well, that went... (*caff caff*)... well. The only (heh) remaining issue is scratchy sound quality, which I suspect has something to do with drivers on this Dell Inspiron 1525.

Going from Hardy to Intrepid to Jaunty via Upgrade Manager is maybe not the best idea. It preserves a lot of history, including some stuff that really needs to change (like the grub menu.lst), which interacts in strange ways. I repartitioned and did a fresh install, discovering to my horror just how much isn't in Ubuntu 9.04 after all. The hours of prep and backup paid off big time.

Btw... GNU Backgammon 0.9.0 is in the repositories, not part of the distribution.

---

Update: I always forget how dead easy the Apache2 install is on Debian-based systems like Ubuntu. Even CGI comes out of the box (scripts go in /usr/lib/cgi-bin), and all I had to do was create two symbolic links at the command line to enable user directories. Not bad. (PHP is even easier.)

AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!

Recognize that? It's the magic word employed by average linuxbox users who upgrade Ubuntu Hardy Heron to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope in a single span of 20 hours.

There are a number of things that go wrong. There are a number of things that look right. Which is which? It's 3 a.m. Sleep is required...