[Gllug] Ubuntu 8.04 release candidate: first impressions

Michael G Fletcher mgfletcher at mgfletcher.com
Sun Apr 20 12:49:30 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 10:32 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> The only fly in the ointment is the support for the wireless card (RT
> 2500). Under 7.04 this was fully supported, under 7.10 support seemed
> broken in various ways (eg the network status applet recorded a signal
> strength of zero at all times) but generally worked.
> 
> Now the network status app works all the time but I cannot get the bit
> rate above 1 Mb/s
> 

Hi Adrian, I have been running the beta version for a couple of weeks
now and have a similar problem on my laptop.  The wireless card is a
Broadcom card using the B43 driver and firmware - the network manager
also says that I am connected at 1mb/s :-)

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