After a bit of mucking around, I updated my PC to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
The update screwed the wireless and none of my normal fixes appeared to work, and the fix I finally tried trashed the computer and stopped it booting in any mode, including safe mode.
So, I did a blank installation from my DVD.
Most things appear fine. The little graphical weirdness that I noticed with the update did not occur, the ATI driver appeared to flow nicely.
But, wireless is the issue once again, well thanks to the Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) that is in my system. This is a continuing problem with Ubuntu, no matter what version you use.
The fix that the setup tries to achive is by installing the b43-fwcutter setup, which almost worked, but didn't... well, it was working but not allowing connection to my ad-hoc network. It could see it, but not connect. I know, get a router and fix that shit, and I will in time (altho a wireless-n would be nice...) , but I want to sit on my chair tonight to fix it.
So, I did this, which appears to work, but not perfectly. I will mess around with it all, and see what it does.
Currently I am downloading 200megs of updates.
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