Current Mood: ecstatic & impressed & nerdy

Well I am now happily (so far) running Ubuntu Hardy Heron! I just need to get my Wacom up and running but I suspect no problems.  I tried upgrading automagically from 7.10 or whatever it was on, but it froze.  And the only fix Whitey could find for me didn’t fix it.  so I installed from scratch and it was fucking FAST.

The only problem I’ve found so far is with my wireless.  It took a a little poking around to find the solution and here it is:

How to - Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG - on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

All my thanks go to this thread here at Ubuntu Forums.  I luffs yous guys.

So after enabling my wireless (which was showing up under System -> Administration -> Network) I went to my Synaptic Package Manager (which I always call the Suppository) and installed linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic.

I then did this in Terminal:

sudo rmmod -f iwl3945
sudo modprobe iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1

… and rebooted.  While it was rebooting I switched my wireless switch to on and watched as it automagically turned blue.  Blue is for yay, in this case.