Eric’s Story Book

So the other day I gave up my fight with installing Linux on my new laptop.  My HP Pavilion dv6000 series notebook is pretty hopeless on getting up and running fully with Linux.  I tried Ubuntu 6.06 amd64/i386 6.10 amd64 and with all of them I have noticed a couple of issues first of all running the NDISWRAPPER the broadcom wireless works great I don’t want to take anything from that or from the guys on the NDIS team.  My main issue was as soon as I would start using my USB to connect to external storage devices it wouldn’t automatically notice my USB device like on my old laptop.  I switched back to the native broadcom drivers for linux and turns out the 4311 card works with the native drivers but they are very spotty.  While using the native drivers my performance on downloading with my wireless card was awful.  Next is my video card this was a task I can say I did get working thanks to help from some of the guys I met inside the Ubuntu Forums. My last battle was getting the On board web cam working and I could get it to work but it would start and take one photo and then freeze so there was no stream coming out of it.  I could have done without the webcam for now but the show stopper for me was the USB and Broadcom drivers I just couldn’t get around it for now.  I figure I will wait a couple of months while the AMD64, Broadcom, and Nvidia support matures then give it a try again.  As for now I switched back to Windows XP Media Center edition and loaded Cygwin to give me some Unix like support on it.  To tell you the truth I will feel lost till I can get Ubuntu loaded and running native once again.

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