Defeated...

by **Tib** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:37 am

My Atheros 64-bit How-To no longer works, I am unable to get the files from it to install manually, and the updated MadWifi drivers refuse to install.....after spending a year with my laptop's wireless working on 64-bit, using bleeding-edge patches.....I am once again without wireless for my Atheros 5007EG network card.....the 2.6.27.11 backport kernel supports the wireless card, but if I run that kernel, my Nvidia graphics drivers crash every time I install them....V_V....I think Linux got the best of me this time >_<.

by **Tib** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:15 am

yaaaaaaaay, then my only question is, is it possible to update the core of my Ultimate Edition 2.1 to Jaunty? or would I have to use a fresh install of plain Jaunty until 2.2 is made?

http://www.youtube.com/user/laur1969 · by **stanca** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:23 am

I already did both options,the second one is the best,trust me. <BREW>

by **Tib** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:38 am

Yea....from everything I've read, upgrading Ultimate Edition to a new release of Ubuntu can be...well....a mess

, I just figured that 2.2 might be a ways off, since TheeMahn just released 2.1 a few weeks ago, guess I gotta wait lol.

by **Cell** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:47 pm

You guys do know you can just replace the wifi card on most laptops right?They are cheap too.I think if played with it more than 2 hours,and it didn't work right......... I would be buying a new card.

http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=NET
theres a few at this web site.Research the chip to find out if its linux friendly,and get one.Takes a lot less hassle that way

by **pch.shot** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:31 pm

You can always sell any non Linux friendly hardware to Windows users. They will buy anything..............

by **Pierre** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:41 am

Windows users.. will buy anything..............

Bunch of Mugs

by **Tib** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:35 pm

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

.

by **Cell** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:42 am

Its been a week since you first posted.You would have had a new wifi card by now......why fight it?

Re: Defeated...

Postby Cell on Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:47 pm
You guys do know you can just replace the wifi card on most laptops right?They are cheap too.I think if played with it more than 2 hours,and it didn't work right......... I would be buying a new card.

http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=NET
theres a few at this web site.Research the chip to find out if its linux friendly,and get one.Takes a lot less hassle that way

by **SaddleTramp** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:49 am

Tib, it looks like the 'Upgrade' went way wrong...you might just try downloading Jaunty, then install the 2.1 theme over top of it...as far as what you've got now, went you set up to do the upgrade, did you add all the repos in Software Sources to Jaunty, then comment out all the Intrepid repos ??

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