Ubuntu Eee 8.04: Still no Wi-Fi
Written by Aldrin Cantos on April 15, 2008 1,389 ViewsReading this article could make you the lucky reader of the month if you Subscribe by Email.
I was able to install Ubuntu Eee 8.04 beta successfully but since then, I have not configured the wifi properly. I have followed the instructions on the wiki, forum and justing gill, who is lucky enough to have his Ubuntu 8.04 perfect OOTB, but to no avail for me.
I was actually able to use the wifi even without applying the madwifi patch, but I had to turn it on from the BIOS before starting Ubuntu up. Or I have to leave the Wi-Fi ‘on’ before I restart. It could be fine though since I can always turn it off anytime I want but it seems like Network Manager is also not behaving properly. There’s no harm I observed though but it’s still better if it could work properly.
Now, this frustrates me because I already tried the solutions so many times and I still can’t figure out how to fix it. Of all the things that could not work, why the WIFI? This is just weird but I am not blaming anyone. I don’t have the rights, and even if I have, I won’t do it. In fact, salute the men behind this project. I admire them. I just hope that it won’t take me a week to resolve my problem, or I will turn back to eeeXubuntu and wait for a more stable release of Ubuntu Eee.
Oh, one more thing… System lags too often and I don’t know why. It just stops responding from time to time.
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April 16th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Hello Alvin,
have you tried the package from http://code.google.com/p/eee-ubuntu-support/ ?
I’ve stumbled uppon it whis testing gos, it is supposed to fix the madwifi drivers question, so it may be worth a look
Wish you luck
April 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I have actually tried the v1.0 of the script a while ago but another problem arose… the 640 x 480 screen resolution issue. And 915resolution won’t fix it.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hey there
I see you referred back to my post (on my site) about Ubuntu on the EEE PC. I would hold out just a few more days until the full release comes out. Many problems should be fixed that were plaging the beta (wireless is a big one).
Another alternative is Mandriva. Personally, I’ve had a better experience using Mandriva on the eee PC vs Ubuntu. Everything works out of the box (much more so than Ubuntu). There are still some issues with it, but like Ubuntu the bugs are being stomped out as time goes on.
Great blog! You’ve done quite a lot of work on the eee PC! Keep it up!
Thanks and Regards!
Justin Gill
April 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Hi Justin,
Thanks for dropping by here. This blog is not as good as yours, though we share the same theme.
BTW, I have used eeeXubuntu for quite a while already before Ubuntu Eee and I did not have serious problems with it since a lot of help is already available in forums and other blogs. I have not tried Mandriva myself but I hear it’s quite better than any other distros.
I am really a newbie in the Linux but I am very interested to learn about more about it. I started this blog to record all my experience about Linux. And maybe for other purposes too.
Aldrin Cantos