So i got a Acer d260 netbook, and after everyone banging on about how great version 10 is and stuff, and always fancyed giving linux a prober go, i installed it into my netbook, but when i asked for it to make a 50GB partition... it wiped the hole drive :| So, no going back now, lost my windows 7 starter for good now, so Ubuntu 10.10 it is! Problem 1: i have a broadcom Wifi card, it isn't supported, but there are drivers that help (link to official drivers) Where the funk is my exe? ( kidding, but i miss them already). so i type in the commands it instructs me to, and it just give me errors... Problem 2: on windows 7 starter, i had my home network set up so i can get to all my photo's, music, films, and even the shared DVD drive on my main desktop over the network... Now i have had a quick look into this for Ubuntu, but it does not seem that i can do it though a different OS, or do you guys know how to do this? Again i am a total noob to this OS and need some guidance. Thanks!
Have you connected the computer to the internet and tried the System > Administration > Additional Drivers program? It is designed to find and install drivers for hardware that do not have open source drivers. With regards to windows file sharing, open nautilus (open your home), press ctrl+l, type in smb://<ip of remote computer> If the remote computer is running Vista or 7 you may have to turn off NTLMv2.
For the wireless card, you might need to install special firmware. It's pretty simple once you've identified your card's chipset, have a look here.
I'll gladly confirm that. In my experience, Broadcom drivers have a good (recent) history of working well with Linux. Try the instructions on the website sb1991 linked to; if that doesn't work you should post the error messages you're getting. To connect to a Windows server, you can use samba. There is an tutorial at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605 but I don't use Ubuntu, so I can't say if the tutorial is any good or not - but ubuntuforums.org is undoubtedly a good place to look for Ubuntu help I've installed samba on Debian operating systems without any problems, so it should work fine on Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses Debian as a base). Unfortunately I've only used it on a minimal level (literally only using the "put" and "get" commands) so I can't offer any help with it. You'll have to get used to Ubuntu (or any other GNU/Linux distribution; or any other OS for that matter) but once you are used to it, it will be like using Windows (except you won't be using Windows).
If you're sharing files from Ubuntu -> Windows then: 1. Right-click on the folder and go to share. It will prompt you to install Samba. 2. If you've used a different name for your Windows Workgroup other than "WORKGROUP" then this will require a little change in a config file. Otherwise you're good to go. If you're sharing files from Windows -> Ubuntu: 1. Share a folder like you would normally. 2. Go to Sharing and Security Centre, then the Advanced options. 3. Make sure you have password protection turned off and also file sharing discovery enabled. The names I'm using for these things might not be completely correct as I'm doing it from memory but you get the picture.
Thanks a lot, I also had this problem. _________________ Dịch vụ thiết kế nội thất văn phòng luôn mang lại cho bạn một không gian nội thất văn phòng đẹp và sang trọng
just got back from my travels, going to try out whats been said today, will get back to you as soon as poss, thanks guys.
