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Well In My Opinion I Would Buy a

NET TP-LINK 54M WIRELESS USB ADAPTER

My Sister and I Use These When Needed and it defiently gets the job done
 
Well i've had mine for several years and its working fine and i dont think you need a driver for it but you might :S

I got mine at Eaglecrest Technologies (i picked it up in launceston) for 39.95 and there really good :)
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an 54M WR541G/TL-542G its the router :P

If your not willing to buy i can look for an answer or make 1 :P
 
I'd like to know how I'd set up something similar to Norton GHOST, with Edubuntu for a networked/server lab.

We're going to be shipping machines overseas and setting up a lab in Cameroon.
 
Whoa, it sounds good. A DRBL server?

I'd like to check out that HFS+ feature- Sadly I've only got my Mac to work with. Isn't it like Time Machine, then?
 
It is almost a perfect clone of Norton Ghost so it will have most of the features (that may also include the features of Time Machine :P)
 

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I'm really surprised you can't get a realtek Ethernet adapter working out-of-box on Ubnuntu.  I'ts a kernel-level driver and Ethernet drivers are so standard you'd be hard-pressed to find one that doesn't work. You will probably need to recompile your kernel even if you find a driver for it, which is probably outside the scope of your expertise (I have to follow a guide to do things like that personally and I've been using linux a while now).

If you don't have an onboard NIC just stick with something name-brand and you'll be almost guaranteed to get a working product; there's probably a pool of 3-5 chipsets still circulating around and they're all going to work fine in Ubuntu. Wireless cards are much more flaky, but I have had good luck with linksys adapters.

The big thing when buying hardware for Linux is to remember that typically someone has to hack drivers together for it by themselves, because hardware manufacturers rarely bother supplying them. So you always want to buy the most popular, thoroughly tested and widely used items available when you can; sticking to big name brands, as ironic as that seems, is a good bet.
 
bumpy dumpy roo :hercule:

As you were instructed before, please don't bump your topic unless you have something to contribute to the main point - since this is a general question topic - and Ubuntu isn't really a major focus on these forums; there was no purpose in bumping this again. Don't do it.
-Surmuck
 
I may as well, nothing to lose.

I have some driver difficulties running Ubuntu 8.04. I haven't yet tried 8.10, and don't know if I should or not. Basically, I'm running an hp tx1420us tablet pc with all factory hardware. The following parts seem to be unsupported right now:

Broadcom wireless card 4322 a/b/g/draft-n (the biggest priority)
Passive touch screen (I don't have a lot of information about it, which is part of why it doesn't work)
Headphone jacks (there are two of them, only laptop speakers ever produce sound)
Feedback LED on mute button (blue when muted, red when not, not very important)

That's it, I think. Big things though, except for the last one (tried to be complete, heh). I've tried installing the wireless driver with ndiswrapper, but that didn't work at all. Ubuntu seems to recognize the card, but can never find any networks. Come to think of it, sometimes I get exactly the same behavior in Windows, but only after a while and completely at random.

I've tried making the touch screen work; I forget what the drivers I was using were called. On initial installation, it recognized a tap on the screen as a left click, but did not alter cursor position; after attempts at installation, even that didn't work.


If you get all this to work, could you help me with an OSX86 installation? LOL
 
I'd dare say that you'd have more luck with OSx86- Especially since it does have support for Wireless N cards, and Tablet PCs.

I guess you'd want to post more specs- Such as the chipsets of the various objects and the logic board spec.
 
Well, I don't know the exact chipsets, that's why I provided the model number for the computer. Video is nVidia GeForce Go 6150 (which is an integrated card you should all avoid like devilspawn if you can, I didn't know it would be way worse than Intel's integrated chips), the system chipset is nVidia nForce Go 430.
 

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