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[stanfish]

Question,
Having taken George Farris' advice I searched for another driver...found 
  a madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz. that was recommended.
At each step of the (terminal) installation that called for 'sudo' the 
password was requested, which was supplied and then I got the line
"unable to resolve host sjf-aspire-1"
but never-the-less the command seemed to be carried out except at the 
very end when I needed to make a short script executable (saved as 
10-wifi) to have it come out of suspend or hibernation:
"sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/10.wifi"
This command was refused because of lack of privilege...
I thought that 'sudo' plus the 'password' would be enough but apparently 
this is not so.
What I have missed?
Stan Fisher

SJF wrote:
> OK That sounds reasonable to me. If it is the network drivers that are 
> flaky what do you suggest? I have two wireless drivers 5xxx 
> Atheros802.11 (which is activated) and another just named Atheros 802.11 
> (inactive). Neither is reliable in getting contact with my LAN.
> Thanks,
> Stan Fisher
> 
> 
> 
> George Farris wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 18:54 -0800, stanfish wrote:
>>> John
>>> I have an Asus Aspire One and I replaced the Linplus linux that came 
>>> with it and installed Ubuntu 8.10.
>>> The only ongoing problem I have with it is a very flaky wireless 
>>> connection... which I understand from various on line discussion is 
>>> due to a very flaky "Network Manager" utility that comes with the 
>>> Gnome desktop.
>>
>> I seriously doubt this but it's possible.  I have found the Network
>> Manager in the the latest 8.10 to be a huge step forward, very well
>> done.
>>
>>> I have tried Wicd (but it was no better). I continue to hope every 
>>> time I boot up that the damn thing will connect...mostly it does but 
>>> not always...very frustrating. If you decide to go ahead here are 
>>> some references:
>>
>> Which probably speaks more to the network drivers than NM or Wicd.
>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L?highlight=%28%28AspireOne%29%29 
>>>
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
>>>
>>> http://www.linpus.com/help.php
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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