That's it, I'm screwed V_V.....I just upgraded my laptop's 2.1 x64 Ultimate Edition install to the 9.04 Release Candidate, to test if it supports my wireless....and it doesn't.......the free "ath5k" driver that comes with it, doesn't work, so I turned on the new MadWifi driver that is listed in 9.04's Hardware Drivers, and that doesn't work either.....uhg....
EDIT: Okay, so I went and googled around some, found a suggestion to use backport drivers yet again, so I tried installing them, but it runs into an error, here's the terminal output.
jonathan@Tibby:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
[sudo] password for jonathan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-backports-modules-jaunty is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libarts1c2a libartsc0 liblzo1 libgda4-bin amarok-engine-xine ttf-dustin
libtunepimp5 libgda4-sqlite libexiv2-4 librasqal0 libclamav5
libfile-desktopentry-perl libamrnb3 libpcrecpp0 libx264-59 python-qt3
libavcodec-unstripped-51 libamrwb3 libevolution3.0-cil libmagick++10
libqt4-gui libcaptury0 libfile-basedir-perl mbr desktop-base libifp4
libdvdread3 libgda4-4 libcapseo0 libimlib2 libgda4-common libnjb5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic (2.6.20-16.29) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-12-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 20
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic.postinst line 1240.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
jonathan@Tibby:~$
Now, when it ran all of that the first time, when I did the installation from Synaptic, it popped a message asking me to report the crashed program, so I hit Report Problem, it spun it's wheels for a second, and then popped a message that said something like "Crash could not be reported. Package is not a genuine Ubuntu Package".....so....I am utterly clueless.....again.....halp meh
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