Ubuntu 8.10 with 2.6.28 Kernel

By +John Teacake
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Seriously though, I suggest you read thru the docs I linked, and also here, specifically in the comments section. Linux requires a certain bit of self-reliance, so you probably won't get exact step-by-step directions for exactly what you want to get done.

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Feel better?

I linked him to the actual current documentation for the distro he uses, not the 5-year old clunky half-assed mess you linked. Simply put, if he were to follow the guide you linked, he would create a complete mess and be confused and frustrated in no time.

By saying it was easier than it used to be, I was referring to the fact that it's much easier using apt-get and having automatic dependency resolution now, than 10+ years ago when I was learning all this. This wasn't a jab at anyone, I was stating a fact. Not sure why you got all butt-hurt about this, but whatever. Nerd rage must be overwhelming you...

The "5-year old clunky half-assed mess" is still a valid guide, and as it's not oriented towards a specific distribution can be used as a reference by other people who do not run Ubuntu.

Maybe if you hadn't been trolling around so much I wouldn't be replying that way to you, it was either that or the lame signature you have that triggered it and saw your comment as just another trolling attempt.

So yeah, thanks and sorry about that.

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Why would you need a newer kernel, in order to get wireless working? When in doubt, I would say ndiswrapper would work, but EeePCs/netbooks are popular, so it should be fairly straight forward to get wifi up and running on an Eee PC 701 by digging around some Eee PC forums.

I've got wifi working just fine on my Aspire One, after I did connect it wired ethernet, and downloaded the open-source Atheros driver, and on my Toshiba laptop, the wifi works using the Windows driver and ndiswrapper with my Atheros card. And on my AAO, I'm running 8.10, with Gnome and KDE 4.1 installed, I tried UNR, but it doesn't work all that well for me, so I uninstalled it.

Compiling a new kernel for wifi just seems a bit drastic to me.

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