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The most obvious one is the wireless card that I have in this laptop. The Hardware Drivers sub-system comes up with the fact that the Broadcom 4318 card has been found and that there's a driver available, however, the installation routine just doesn't do anything. Dropping into the terminal and running the following command: sudo /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh fixes it (just make sure you have a wired Internet connection).
I can then select my wireless network and it automatically selects the right encryption scheme. When I put in the WPA password it all connects correctly and I can browse my Local Area Network and the Internet (more on this on page 3).
However, I run into a problem when I restart. The system seems to forget the WPA password and I have to type it in again. Once this is done, it connects fine, so this is more of an annoyance than anything else. It has been reported as a bug and it is being worked on.
I am able to make connections to data that I have on a server, connecting using the Windows Server method that I have previously written about. Unfortunately, it seems that the WORKGROUP browsing issue I mentioned in that article in 8.04 "Hardy Heron" has been taken over to 8.10. I haven't looked to see if that has been reported yet.
I want to listen to some music that I have on one of the shares, so I tell the music player, Rhythmbox, to go look there for the music. However, it doesn't see any of the music files on the share. This is a Rhythmbox application issue and has been logged. I get around it by mounting the share in a different way (I want to write an article about how to do that soon) and I can successfully listen to my music.
I am sure there are more issues to be discovered, but that's as far as I have tested so far.
Please read on to Page 3 to find out what I think is great about Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Alpha 6 and why I will be upgrading as soon as it is out.
David Bass
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