[ILUG] Jaunty Jackalope and Wireless

[Kieran Murphy]

There's a short time, after logging in after the upgrade, where the
background goes that "windows blue" and all thats on the screen is the mouse
pointer.I almost had a heart attack, thinking that the upgrade had actually
installed Windows.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Michael Dever
<michael.dever2 at mail.dcu.ie>wrote:

> Any idea how Jaunty handles the Atheros 500x series wifi cards?
>
> Mick
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie> wrote:
>
> > Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:24 +0200, Braun Brelin wrote:
> > >> Hey all,
> > >>
> > >> Has anyone played around with 9.04 Beta/Release candidate?
> >  Specifically,
> > >> I'd like to find out if wireless network management and software has
> > >> improved
> > >> in Jaunty over Heron or Intrepid.  Is Wireless management easy enough
> > for
> > [snip]
> >
> >        Intrepid was a huge leap forward in reliability (re wireless
> > networking) from Hardy Heron. I found that WPA2 service in particular
> > was more reliable (tested heavily on services such as eduroam) and the
> > 3G dongles and the like no longer required any scripting or hackery on
> > my part.
> >
> >        Unfortunately, Intrepid seems to have introduced an elusive
> > retrograde
> > step re video drivers (best I can tell) which results in the occasional
> > complete hang of my laptop. This is infrequent enough not to be a big
> > problem, but much more frequent than I'd like.
> >
> >        Re networking, everything is plug and play, and I can honestly say
> > that
> > using Ubuntu networking on a laptop (which requires moving from wired to
> > wireless to 3G dongle and back again multiple times on a daily basis) is
> > far easier and more user friendly on an Ubuntu box than on Windows -
> > particularly when factoring in the 3G dongle aspect.
> >
> >        I've not tested Jaunty yet - I've reached the stage where I use
> > computers to do work, rather than just use them for the fun of using
> > them (mostly! ;-)  ) so I tend to wait for production releases now,
> > rather than testing the RCs and the like.
> >
> >        Hope this helps.
> >
> >        Best regards,
> >        -->Gar
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