How I Feed My Cats with LinuxI don't even have a cat, but <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7403">here's a handy guide</a> to controlling external appliances with your computer... One day I will have me some of that.Wahey wa-ireless!First post from the new computer, well the old, very old computer, but using the new operating system and wireless. It's not perfect, the connection does keep dropping, but that could be any number of things. It's been quite a long struggle as the ca... wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicelyEverything was good until I upgraded to the newer "Feisty Fawn" version of ubuntu, now we're back to the drawing board. I have no wifi and sometimes I have no keyboard or mouse either. If any of the following instructions (which I'm copying and pasti... Not sure where that came from...... but I just got my old PC internetting wirelessly at last, without needing to buy any new bits, and by following a forum post from 2005. How many times have I tried this and failed? This time I tried something new, and it worked. I think I was ins... Some popbitch updatesHad a quiet night in last night, while Clare was out down Chambers with her bro, putting the world to rights. So, did some coding that I'd meant to do for ages, and put a new "new" feature on the popbitch board; posts that are new since your last vis... I met him, so he's my friendSee.Just emailed you, glad you are around:I have some kind of mounted network drive available on my ubuntu machine that 'is' my windows box. I can open a window to it, see the files in it etc, but I don't know how to find it from the command line... ... RE: wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicelyHi PaulI came across this site as I was searching how to make my new WG111v3 usb adaptor work under mandriva 2008 (I'll try it on my ubuntu machine later) - that has ndiswrapper installed and, like yours, didn't work. Your posting gave me the clue as... RE: wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicelyCheers, I am all up and running now too. Wifi is too slow to use the box as a backup device as I intended, and ubuntu hangs when I'm transferring large volumes of data, a problem I've seen other people have when googling too... ah well, it was free h... I am ubuntuingFolkestone celebrity @shanerecord knows someone who may want this old computer I am chucking out to use as a real computer, so just checking it still works and seeing if there's much in the way of personal data on it. Should have done that before I p...