My dad was away on study leave for two months.
Mom joined him for one month of “vacation”.
They brought chocolate.
:)
So basically my brother and I were home alone.
Preparing for his wedding.
And…I got my new hardware!!! Updates will follow (like pictures!) and what I shall do with said hardware.
We already installed 1 GB of RAM in Chennette’s laptop and it seems to be recognised. Now I just have to install in our PowerBooks. I hope that’s problem free.
As I said before, I got my wireless card on my powerbook working. I have a few sources, which I shall list…and some of this is cobbled together from their instructions and from help on the Linux Chix IRC channel (warthog9 mostly). Maybe other people have done this better, but this is what I’ve done successfully and need to learn/remember for when I install Linux and not use a live distro (or for each time I use that live Linux).
I did this all on a live Edubuntu CD (6.06 LTS) thus no rebooting necessary. It’s not the distro I wish to use…it’s just what I had at the moment.
This should hopefully work on any Linux distribution (Lantern Torch said something about having kernel >= 2.6.15). And maybe if you don’t have internet access (aside from that pesky wireless card), saving stuff (binaries, firmware, instructions) on a disc or drive that you’re sure that your Linux distro and computer will be able to access is a good idea.
Also, my wireless router is a bit junky and sometimes I had to keep messing with the Networking (IP addresses etc) because DHCP was either not working well or I didn’t have it set up well or I disabled it. I hate my router.
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