Comments on: Kubuntu wireless woes http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4529 tikitu Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:32:33 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4529 <p>Wtf?! Spam Karma decided that last comment needed moderating! "Screw" is too strong for it?</p> Wtf?! Spam Karma decided that last comment needed moderating! “Screw” is too strong for it?

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4535 Robin Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:24:50 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4535 <p>Oh, right. Yeah, that'll screw it up alright. File a bug :)</p> Oh, right. Yeah, that’ll screw it up alright. File a bug :)

]]> By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4534 tikitu Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:23:25 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4534 <p>Well, this particular help was a text file displayed in an html viewer, which is why it looked so bloody awful.</p> Well, this particular help was a text file displayed in an html viewer, which is why it looked so bloody awful.

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4533 Robin Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:50:48 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4533 <p>Well, it is a desktop guide if you compare it to say, the server guide, and the wanting to install applications bit. The help is HTML formatted...that's why it displays it in an HTML viewer :) It displays fine for me.</p> Well, it is a desktop guide if you compare it to say, the server guide, and the wanting to install applications bit. The help is HTML formatted…that’s why it displays it in an HTML viewer :) It displays fine for me.

]]> By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4532 tikitu Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:08:55 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4532 <p>Ahum, you're quite right, the obvious place to look was 'System documentation -> desktop guide' (?!). No but seriously, it <em>is</em> a habit not to look in the help. I got desperate and tried it for this wireless stuff (since I didn't have teh internets) and it turned up what I guess was a text document formatted in html, which is bloody horrible to read (the nicely formatted table of contents runs into a single line, &c.) and doesn't really inspire much confidence.</p> <p>Thanks for the explanation though, it hadn't occurred to me that there are <em>two</em> parameters here (supportedness and freeness), which makes three non-standard repository types make sense.</p> Ahum, you’re quite right, the obvious place to look was ‘System documentation -> desktop guide’ (?!). No but seriously, it is a habit not to look in the help. I got desperate and tried it for this wireless stuff (since I didn’t have teh internets) and it turned up what I guess was a text document formatted in html, which is bloody horrible to read (the nicely formatted table of contents runs into a single line, &c.) and doesn’t really inspire much confidence.

Thanks for the explanation though, it hadn’t occurred to me that there are two parameters here (supportedness and freeness), which makes three non-standard repository types make sense.

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4531 Robin Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:12:10 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4531 <p>PS: You know that Ubuntu has a help thing, right? And that if you were to open up, say...'System documentation' and go to 'desktop guide' you'd find a link to an explanation under there. The Ubuntu help system is quite complete, it's worth checking out just to see what stuff you didn't know about there is. It also provides access to man pages and so forth. It's quite a hard habit to break though, not looking in the help. I was surprised when I found that it wasn't totally useless.</p> PS: You know that Ubuntu has a help thing, right? And that if you were to open up, say…’System documentation’ and go to ‘desktop guide’ you’d find a link to an explanation under there. The Ubuntu help system is quite complete, it’s worth checking out just to see what stuff you didn’t know about there is. It also provides access to man pages and so forth. It’s quite a hard habit to break though, not looking in the help. I was surprised when I found that it wasn’t totally useless.

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/08/13/kubuntu-wireless-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-4530 Robin Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:07:18 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=196#comment-4530 <p>AIUI, the difference between restricted and universe/multiverse is the nature of the packages. Restricted contains things that are supported by Ubuntu, but are non-free (e.g. nvidia video drivers, a lot of wireless drivers). Universe contains unsupported free software, and multiverse contains unsupported non-free software.</p> AIUI, the difference between restricted and universe/multiverse is the nature of the packages. Restricted contains things that are supported by Ubuntu, but are non-free (e.g. nvidia video drivers, a lot of wireless drivers). Universe contains unsupported free software, and multiverse contains unsupported non-free software.

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