Stripey Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 You can apparently use Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 and it does the same job for free.I use sun virtualbox to run the latest ubuntu and opensolaris from inside xp pro, works a treat, the network interfaces even work out of the box (although it's still using NAT)oh yeah and saving the machine state takes seconds, and you can restart it whenever you need to quicker than it takes to boot linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 You might want to try the 32bit version of HH, more drivers are available and things are more likely to work - more testing, 32 bits been around longer, a lot of things - flash are 32bit only. And there is really not much difference in performance between 64 and 32 bit just now.And for flash on 64 bit ubuntu you can do something likesudo apt-get install -i --force-architecture 'the installer path' orsudo dnkpg -i --force-architecture 'the installer path'something like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 You might want to try the 32bit version of HHYeah that's what I'm doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Yeah that's what I'm doing.did you have any luck taking down eth0 and then ifconfig wlan0 up and adding the new default route? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Nope. Working my way through some solutions on Ubuntu forums now. Sure I'll get it working at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 got the following in dmesg: 180.992615] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0[ 180.992622] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74[ 180.992633] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate[ 180.992641] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0[ 180.992644] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74[ 180.992651] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate[ 180.993169] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)[ 180.993173] wlan0: authenticated[ 180.993176] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74[ 180.993180] wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disabled - abort association[ 180.994313] wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74, but not in authenticate state - ignored[ 181.137320] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate[ 188.261487] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate[ 188.261619] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0[ 188.261623] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74[ 188.261633] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate[ 188.261642] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0[ 188.261645] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74[ 188.261651] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate[ 188.263549] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)[ 188.263553] wlan0: authenticated[ 188.263558] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74[ 188.263561] wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disabled - abort association[ 188.266863] wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:1b:2f:a8:37:74, but not in authenticate state - ignored[ 188.465361] wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 are you using wep or wpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 wpaincidentally, how the hell do you install drivers in linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 wpaincidentally, how the hell do you install drivers in linux?they're either compiled into the kernel or compiled seperately and loaded as kernel modules using modprobe / insmodgoogle wpa_supplicantI've not set up wpa myself with linux before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 they're either compiled into the kernel or compiled seperately and loaded as kernel modules using modprobe / insmodgoogle wpa_supplicantI've not set up wpa myself with linux before.hmm, seems wpa_supplicant is included with the driver I downloaded. just need to figure out this modprobe thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 the drivers are working fine, it's just a misconfiguration of the WPA settingsTerminally Incoherent Blog Archive Linksys WPC54G ver. 1.2 with WPA on Hardy may help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 cool, I'll give that a go tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 WiFi software arrives on Linux desktops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClicheGuevara Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 The reason I've gone back to my XP partition is because of the wifi. Was forced to switch from a direct connection to wireless due to a new router and haven't got round to getting it to work. Proabably take forever troubleshooting it and looking through forum replys all contradicting each other Probably gonna reinstall with KDE(kubuntu) instead of gnome soon, and sort it out then.I do prefer linux over windows though, it can just be a bitch to set up quite minor things. A lot more time is wasted into setting stuff up, sorting problems etc. I'd say it's worth it though (for compiz too ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Hmm, I realise we've banned the person who was most helpful on this, but maybe someone else can jump in. This is what I get when I try and bring up the wlan0 connection from terminal: sudo ifup wlan0There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.All rights reserved.For info, please visit ISC DHCPwmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:db:09:83:fdSending on LPF/wlan0/00:19:db:09:83:fdSending on Socket/fallbackDHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13No DHCPOFFERS received.No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.where as I get this when I bring up eth0: sudo ifup eth0Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.All rights reserved.For info, please visit ISC DHCPwmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:db:38:69:06Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:db:38:69:06Sending on Socket/fallbackDHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5DHCPOFFER of 192.168.0.5 from 192.168.0.1DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.5 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67DHCPACK of 192.168.0.5 from 192.168.0.1bound to 192.168.0.5 -- renewal in 39315 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spellchecker Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 looks good, you are getting an ip address.try a couple of ping tests from the command line:ping 66.218.71.63and ping uk.yahoo.comthe first will test your net connection and the second will be the same but also testing DNSif neither work, try posting the output ofroute -n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 looks good, you are getting an ip address.Only when I use the ethernet connection, eth0, which is the second part of my previous post. The DHCP isn't offering me anything over wlan0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 I gave up and installed Fedora 9 instead. Works much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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