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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 21:20:51 Ray Smith wrote: > Tried downloading 7.04 and booted up. First problem was I kept getting an > fd0 link error. I don't have a floppy drive and have it disabled in the > bios so that was an annoyance. Edgy didn't give this problem. > > The rest of the boot took an age. Almost 10 minutes. I had unplugged my > cable modem in the hopes my netgear router connected to my wirelsess would > be detected and checking the networking tools my ssid did have the correct > name but only had the option to connect with wep not wpa. > As I have wpa configured on the router I figured I could change temporarily > or disable it to test but starting firefox and going to the configuration > page for the modem. > No joy. Firefox resolutely refused to start until everything locked up. > Am now going to try manually configure the settings using edgy again. The > most annoying thing is I can't find the blasted disk anywhere so am just > redownloading it through window$. > > Am armed with lots of printouts for compiling drivers,setting up modules > and configuring scripts so fingers crossed. > Our own Robin Cornelius is involved with the rt2400/rt2500 development > drivers. > Shame I need to set up the rt61 ! Oh well. > > Ray Installed 7.04 on my main system and, apart from the terrible refresh rate and lousy positioning of the display on my aged 17" CRT, it worked OK. Oddly, the net connection seems quicker - monitoring it seems to indicate a 10 or 15% increase here on my 512k connection compared to 6.10. Installing the nvidia driver stuffed the display completely - the xorg.conf was totally wrong. Fixed easily, but not if it happens to a new user! Everything else seems to work so far. I also installed it on a second partition on my laptop ( I mentioned I was testing the live disk before). Took ages to install - possibly down to my rubbishy dvd drive in the laptop. Once installed, no matter what I tried from the stock install, the wireless did not work. I use wpa-psk, which seems to cause issues - I suspect unencrypted connections would work fine. I have done the usual creation of an /etc/Wireless/RT2500/RT2500.dat file and edited the /etc/network/interfaces file and it now works - but again, a pain for new users (who frankly would be totally lost I suspect - naughty Kubuntu!) Running it here currently and I notice it seems sluggish, despite all my usual tweaks. Kmail seems to really tax the machine - 100% CPU when it is collecting mail. I do run my mail through filters, but I do that on 6.06 and 6.10 too and never seen this sort of processor blasting. I see this version has a spam filter called CRM114 in it, which I have not seen before, so maybe that is the problem causer? On current test with the laptop, I would not recommend switching until 7.04 has been sorted out a bit more. 6.06 is much less problematic imho. Strange, because the early test versions were much less hassle! Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html