It has been some time since I really messed with linux on any of my machines. Sure some flavor of linux has been on Lightman, my laptop, most of the time I have owned it, but with zero success in getting my wireless connection working it was kinda dead to me. I had been planning on waiting for the next full version of Ubuntu to be released, which comes out in mid April, but I caught a link to the beta of it so went ahead and installed it. I kinda hated jumping on the Ubuntu bandwagon, but it my recent installs of Fedora it could not even update itself properly, so well, fuck it. Since my linux hobby is hardly even a tertiary hobby anymore I move on after even the slightest bit of annoyance.
Anyways, after the install I ran through all the updates and started work on getting my wireless connection working. It took two days, but it is working now. Apparently, the wireless card in Lightman is recognized incorrectly in both Windows and linux...but Windows just does not care and makes it work anyways. Unfortunatly, linux is not that accomodating. I found tons of useful information in the ubuntu forums that pretty much duplicated all the stuff I had already read before, but this time there was some mention of blacklisting bad drivers and that seemed to work.
I am looking forward to more playing. As it is, there is very little I do in Windows on Lightman that I can't do in linux. Hell, Lightman has almost been relegeted to a media machine so this switch to linux will be a fun.
