Comments on: Ubuntu 8.04 serious issues?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:08:36 +0000

Alex thats why I run Ubuntu in VMware fusion.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:05:38 +0000

I ordered the cd for free but when I used it, it said there was an apic problem. So i reboot and say no-apic and gives m a command line. I don’t get it.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:20:21 +0000

I am having the same problem with my Dell Inspiron 1705. Ubuntu 7.10 saw the wireless card (Dell 1390) and worked with no problems, but 8.04 LTS is not making use of the network card. I see it in the hardware list, but I can never get the hardware interface for the wlan to come up.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:42:00 +0000

I have the same issue. Dell 1501 ran nicely with 7.10 installed, now I can’t use the wireless interface. It is detected I guess because it is showing in the NICs list but it does not stay selected.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:06:34 +0000

Even though you post a comment it doesn’t stay, I have to approve it fist.

I get a LOT of spam.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:56:24 +0000

Why were the comments for this webpage removed?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:12:48 +0000

Argiod I understand but my issue is that it was 100% compatible with the previous version of Ubuntu, so it seems like a step back to me.

By: Argiod

Argiod — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:02:56 +0000

On needs to keep in mind that Ubuntu, along with all Linux Distros, is a work-in-proress. Until mainstream software producers ‘get with it’ and start supporting us, we will always have some compatibility problems. On the whole, though, I find Ubuntu to be the finest Linux platform I’ve tried. I still need VMWare to run programs that simply do not have Linux implimentations. But for sheer security when surfing the web, Ubuntu wins, hands down.

By: Someone who cares

Someone who cares — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:04:31 +0000

Did you file a bug report to let them know so they can investigate and fix it before release?

By: Stephan

Stephan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:08:22 +0000

It may be fixed, but only if someone else is having the same problem and has reported it. I would recommend going to the Ubuntu forums and posting about this, either someone will have had the same issue and will know a fix, or you should be able to get some help.

Luckily the amount of hardware Linux supports out of the box is massive now. The great thing about it is that you can just put in the CD and your hardware will be there. There are no driver CDs necessary. My laptop, my work laptop and my wife’s computer are all fully supported with no extras. That’s quite nice compared to installing, then installing drivers, then hundreds of windows updates. Most annoying is when you can’t use the Internet to get the drivers as there is no ethernet card driver. That really is a pain! On my laptop under Ubuntu 6.10, I had no wireless (till I looked up how to do it on the Ubuntu forums) but at least ethernet still worked!

In my opinion, it’s just due to the way Windows has been sold with most computers in the past. This is now changing, but it meant that hardware manufacturers didn’t need to care about supporting anything other than Windows. Like I said though, this has changed drastically! Computers are for sale without Windows and nvidia, ATI etc make products that work under Linux, as if they didn’t, they wouldn’t sell as many products. Money is what it’s all about anyway.

Anyway, I’m ranting… the short answer is to go on the Ubuntu forums and check out what the status of support for your hardware is. From the sounds of it, it is now supported, just a glitch that needs ironing out. At least you can get it fixed. Just imagine going to Microsoft’s forums and asking this. Oh wait, you can’t!

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