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26 Aug 2008, 2:59 am

Might not seem like much but it has taken a week using the ubuntu forums to sort out my broadcom wireless card. Finally writing this using Linux, unwired. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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26 Aug 2008, 3:59 am

Congratulations :)
Everybody who had to get some things running under Linux that didn't run out of the box (USB drivers, wireless...) knows how happy you must be.


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26 Aug 2008, 10:37 am

Linux is only harder because manufacturers predominantly write drivers for Microsoft.



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26 Aug 2008, 11:25 am

Congrats! Once wireless gets going on those damned Broadcom chipsets, it's all smooth sailing.


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26 Aug 2008, 1:14 pm

I like to get the hard stuff out of the way with at first myself. Guess you didnt have a choice, but you probably learned a lot.


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26 Aug 2008, 4:54 pm

Fuzzy wrote:
I like to get the hard stuff out of the way with at first myself. Guess you didnt have a choice, but you probably learned a lot.


Not wrong there fuzzy. what really got me though I just got it going then the kids needed MY laptop for some UNI work. All I wanted to do was play with linux after all my trials. You damn UNI students :D


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26 Aug 2008, 5:00 pm

DentArthurDent wrote:
Might not seem like much but it has taken a week using the ubuntu forums to sort out my broadcom wireless card. Finally writing this using Linux, unwired. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


I had to do that, too! I waited until my brother got off the desktop then hooked my computer up to the ethernet cable and downloaded the drivers through Synaptic. :P


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26 Aug 2008, 5:19 pm

What I really liked what the feeling when I first booted a liveCD.

I thought: "Well, here I am. What now?" and it was very much like stepping onto the surface of a new world. Looking around it was like I was on mars. The only man there, the first, and while I didnt know anything about it, I understood what I faced.

It was the butterzone of an aspie.

I hope I never forget that feeling.


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27 Aug 2008, 4:39 am

Fuzzy wrote:

It was the butterzone of an aspie.



Ahh I love my recent discovery and DX of AS. Quotes like this make me feel like I have finally come home. Brilliant


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