Thanks for trying out gNewSense George.
On 2014-03-26 20:40, George Roberge wrote:
I did install gNewSense on my laptop and a spare PC this evening
because
I wanted to get a feel for the distribution, and I found that Evolution
would not function properly unless I stopped Gnome's Network Manager.
This is not really the point of this email, but related.
This is odd. I would file a bug if this hasn't been already reported.
I purchased a Think Penguin USB network adapter to help break out of
the
proprietary hardware bind, and used it well-enough in Mint Debian. As
a
side note- turning off the wifi using the keyboard button disabled both
the internal wifi and the USB adapter, which was disappointing, but
that's not important, either. What became problematic was when I
installed gNewSense on the laptop, and had neither a recognized eth0
card (Intel, I guess), nor a working USB adapter. I want to say that
the USB adapter requires a newer kernel than the one in gNewSense.
You can upgrade the gNewSense kernel (and I recommend that you tell
others about this too) by using jxself's repositories[1]. Simply follow
the directions on that page and you should find your hardware working.
I'm a pretty patient person, but as the night went on I lost most of
it,
and am a little concerned about trying to promote the software if I
can't run it. No offense to anyone here, but if I'm a "tech dork" and
have had this many issues, I'm afraid of what Joe Windows will face if
he brings home the distribution DVD.
I understand how you feel -- The fact is, operating systems are often
hard to get working correctly. Please don't leave us; sometimes you just
have to grind out through all the issues out before you get comfortable.
All of the issues you've described in this email are indeed fixable;
it's just a matter of getting the work done.
[1]: http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Glad to have a new gNSer,
--
Harry Prevor
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