The installation went perfectly well onto the hard drive. Booting from the hard drive went easily, even the video was auto-recognised (although the restricted ATI driver needs to be selected via the SYSTEM/ADMINISTRATION/RESTRICTED DRIVER MANAGER pieces.
The first order of business was to get the Internet working. However, I discovered that the type of card that is used within the ASUS F5R, a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card rev 01, at least for ad hoc networking (which my current setup is), as mentioned here.
So following the instructions from this, I installed Ndiswrapper, removed the old driver as commanded, rebooted and ran the software (listed under SYSTEM/ADMINISTRATOR), I then hunted around my Windows drive for my XP wireless drivers. I tried to install it, but it did nothing, nor did the wireless light want to stay on.
I hunted around and found this HP Driver for the same card, which I downloaded to my other Windows PC, half installed, and then grabbed all of the driver files, stuffed them on a USB key and carried them over to the Ubuntu installation. I installed the driver, and it actually worked, but said the wireless unit was not connected. One more reboot, making sure the wireless light was on correctly during the entire startup, which it was. I then checked the driver setup and it said it was good. After a few minutes, I checked the Network Manager in the top right of the window, and found the main computers ad hoc network was showing up. With a bit of mucking around, I finally got the networks password sorted and the computer connected.
Now, the computer does not appear to recognise the Ethernet card, so that's some more work for another day, but Ethernet is the least of my worries as I hardly touch it.
Sound is working, and while the microphone appears to be working, actually getting some recorded sound to be showing up is a different story.
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