Hardy Heron came out couple of days ago. I decided to upgrade.

The upgrade took 13hours. I left it overnight and it was downloading at a mere 20kb/sec. Finally, it finished, I rebooted my PC.

I found myself gazing at some pretty slick and cool new changes.

I opened up Firefox and it was working fine. I was happy.

10 minutes later I had no interwebs. I cried.

But then I remembered that my native wireless driver had not be blacklisted due to the upgrade so ndiswrapper was not being used. So I removed it from the kernel and blacklisted it. Rebooted pc. Nothing. I reverted back to what I had before and enjoyed the 5 minutes of internet per reboot.

I deleted ndiswrapper and tried to reinstall it. Epic fail. Couldn’t compile from source and couldn’t use it from repos. I went onto the forums to ask for  help but nobody helped. I googled everywhere but couldn’t fine anything. I backed up my documents (good thing about linux is that everything is stored in one place) and reinstalled Hardy from scratch. Epic fail. Same problem.

I then installed Gutsy again. My internet got capped so I had to endure the painfully slow update. But…eventually everything is back up now. I just have to setup some shortcuts and everything should be fine. :)

I’ll just wait another 6 months for Ibex to be released which hopefully will fix my wireless issues…otherwise I’ll buy another adapter.

Anywho, til next time.

BB.

BTW Henry: I don’t know why you see the flashes but I haven’t written/deleted any blogs since the blog when I said that I did…does that make sense?

PS I don’t expect anybody who reads this to understand…but…I’m guessing a handful of you would…