To the newbies who've never tried Linux but always wanted to

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:08 pm

I wouldn't call Ubuntu "stable" since it crashes when I moves the panels around a bit, however I made the panels stay where I want them by deleting one of them and re-creating it from scratch.

Now, if some kind person could tell me how to get the wireless network up and running. In the network configuration window it does display the device ra0 as activated (the card uses the RT2400 chipset), however I can't go anywhere with Firefox.

I entered this SSID: "Smoke Hill Corp." (without the quotes, works in Windows).
This ASCII password: "****" (without the quotes, works in Windows).
Finally, I selected DHCP and clicked OK. An "activating" window stays open for quite a lot of time before it closes.

The connection uses WEP encryption with the password "****".

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:22 pm

If you've checked the wireless wiki for ubuntu then I recommend using ndiswrapper with your windows drivers to get it working.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:21 pm

I don't think there is anything wrong with the driver since I occassionally got it working with the same card on an earlier installation of Ubuntu (with the same settings, from the same CD). But I'll read through the wiki.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:55 pm

Where should I put this?

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export PUREBASIC_HOME=~/purebasic
export PATH=$PUREBASIC_HOME/compilers:$PATH

If I type it in in the terminal it only lasts for that terminal session.

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:19 pm

Trond wrote:Where should I put this?
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export PUREBASIC_HOME=~/purebasic
export PATH=$PUREBASIC_HOME/compilers:$PATH
If I type it in in the terminal it only lasts for that terminal session.

I created a shell script with that in it. Just create a text doc, paste that in it. add "purebasic" as the last line. Save it in your home folder as "pb.sh". Set the permissions to execute. Then at the home prompt, type

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./pb.sh

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:04 pm

Is there no standard place to put it? There's got to be a place where the rest of the environment variables are set.

olejr · Post by **olejr** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:46 pm

Here's two options.
.bashrc in your home dir. That way it's exported for you.
/etc/profile if you go for global.

At least that's how it work on Mandrake..

gpetersz · Post by **gpetersz** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:18 pm

Trond wrote:I never said Windows worked. I tried Linux for a reason.

C'mon guys! Please forget this childish argument on whose father is stronger...
It remember when C64 owners challenged the ZX Spectrum owners then Amiga owners the Atari ST owners, later PC owners.

Can't the informatic public grow up?

I've used Windowses, then Debian, and now I've changed to Ubuntu.
Noone of them worked PERFECTLY, and I guess until normal people write software there never will be a software which will suit EVERYBODY's needs or expectations.

I have a different problem yet, I tried to load Waponez II to see an application running, but It wrote "Waiting the executable to start" when I ran it and then.... nothing.