Comments on: The Web Without Wires

By: colin watts

colin watts — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:40:53 +0000

i have a problem as with most of you on here. my webbook with ubuntu wont let me access the wireless functions. even worse there seems to be a password system in place. i cannot bypass the system so im looking at at a full system reset. how would i do it coz i dont have a flash drive and no cd rom?

By: roslein

roslein — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:52:50 +0000

Dear Alan,

Thanks for your reply. I’ve got no idea what an Intrepid image is. Please explain.

Best,

Ros

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:23:20 +0000

you didn’t accidentally press fn+f1 did you?

By: Doogle

Doogle — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:58:38 +0000

Help!

I have a webbook and have had it working for some time. However after updateing the system my wirelss has stopped working altogether and seems to no longer be detected by the system.

I don’t have a wired connection. How do I fix this?

Doogle

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:56:39 +0000

I haven’t used LaTeX before, it is a typesetting thing isn’t it? The automatic upgrade process generally works, but has failed for a few people so be prepared for a long download to get it and possibly a bit of fixing afterwards. Alternatively you can download a pre-built Intrepid image which will nuke your current webbook and drop on a fresh installation.

By: roslein

roslein — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:36:15 +0000

is there any way of updating to new version of ubuntu?
I would also like to use latex and have installed packages but have no idea how to invoke them, emacs comes up on the menus but not the rest

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:33:19 +0000

Jaunty means Jaunty Jackalope, the next release after the Intrepid Ibex

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:43:45 +0000

Well, the # lines mean comment.
I’m sure jaunty is supposed to read January…

Personally, I’d do this:

# Enable double-buffering so gstreamer et. al. work
options quickcam compatible=2

# Default hostap to managed mode
options hostap_pci iw_mode=2
options hostap_cs iw_mode=2

# Stop auto-association.
# LP: #264104
options ipw2200 associate=0

#add fix from webbookblog.com
options ipw220 led=1

# XXX: Ignore HPA by default. Needs to be revisted in jaunty
options libata ignore_hpa=1

By: BlueBird

BlueBird — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:37:20 +0000

Seems since I updated to 8.10 it’s not as easy to get the wifi led back on. after loading the modprobe.d I see the above text that you suggest but also

# Stop auto-association.
# LP: #264104
options ipw2200 associate=0

# XXX: Ignore HPA by default. Needs to be revised in jaunty
options libata ignore_hpa=1

Any good translations of that into a more commong toungue?

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:22:02 +0000

Does this comment (from the article above);

“it does 802.11b and 802.11g. I don’t think it does 802.11n”

mean that the webbook will connect to a wireless B or G router, but not to a wireless N router?

This could explain why I have been struggling unsuccessfully to connect to a wireless network via a Wireless N Belkin router.

I have an Orange mobile internet dongle, but I was hoping to have an easy alternative connection to the internet in order to avoid overshooting the download limit. Just on that point, what is the best way of keeping tabs of my download usage? The download figure in the small Orange mobile broadband screen does not seem to reset to zero at the end of the month. My download limit is 3GB per month.