I'm extremely new to Linux so bare with me.

i installed ubuntu 10.04 to a flash drive and booted into it without any hang ups. after a few simple clicks i had every piece of hardware up and running in a matter of minutes. keep in mind that i have been fighting the wireless adapter in this thing for over a month. ylmf put up one hell of a fight and puppy just wasn't fancy enough for me to mess with for too long so i tried ubuntu and was pleased to see it up and working first boot off the flash drive.

so i decided i would run with it and installed it to the hard drive. once it was installed and booted i had absolutely no network adapters available. i had no Internet and no easy way of installing the bcmwl kernel because of all its dependencies.

so after realizing that i had a perfectly good running pen drive i plugged it in, opened the pool file, clicked restricted, opened the B file and clicked to install the bcmwl driver. this brought up a list of its dependencies and i wrote them all down and dug through the main file under pool to find the packages i needed. after fighting my way through all that i have my wireless up and running along with a few other things that weren't working.

i just wanted to put this out there as an option...im not sure if anyone else has,had or will have the same problem, but this worked out pretty slick for me.

and i want to thank Linux for making it so easy for a person to figure this stuff out. Ive never had a .dll file tell me what it needed to run.

It's not the fact of having an actual "file" telling you what to do and install, it is just how linux is "written," so to speak. If you would have posted on these forums about how to get your network devices to work, we would have steered you in a direction on how to get them to work, just like the way you did, only with commands and different ways to gather the resources needed.

But besides that point, I'm glad that you got it figured out on your own! You almost sound like a natural

Cheers, and all the best,

Josh

thanks. but it was short lived, lol.

it ran great for about an hour. rebooted a few times and everything was good....but then i ran an update and it all went to hell... in the heat of the moment during my flash drive experiment i think i added a few packages i didn't actually need.(cuz they sounded cool) so when it scanned for an update it downloaded an ungodly amount of packages and patches and totally wrecked the install. still had wireless though... i got it back up and running with a clean install and the proper packages from the drive. i just learned through the school of hard knocks i guess. more like love taps when playing with pendrive installs though. kinda simple stuff...