[orca-list] Incredibly frustrated!

["Chris Gilland" <clgilland07 earthlink net>]

OK, guys, I use my laptop for business, and so, this is kind of an ergent 
thing that I need to get fixed.  The one person who's name I won't mention 
who may could help me with this has told me he'd help for $15 an hour.  Well 
exucse me, $15 an hour to me anyway, just seems a bit expensive for an open 
source OS.  Any way, enough venting, let me get to my question.  OK, I am 
running at this point on my laptop Feisty 7.04.  I am also running Orca, 
quite obviously.  OK, well, if I plug an ethernet cable in to my laptop, I 
can get online perfectly, but, I have looked in the top and the bottom 
pannels and do not see Network Manager there at all.  I went into 
applications/add remove, and network manager deffinently is checked.  So, it 
is apparently installed.  I however can't find it in my pannel anywhere.  I 
have looked and looked.  It just simply put, isn't there.  I went online and 
tried desperetly using my windows box to find an installer for network 
manager but had no luck I even checked the apt repositories.  I even went 
into /etc/apt/sources.list and added the multiverse repository.  I also with 
a hard wired internet connection via eithernet cable went to a terminal and 
did:

sudo apt-get update

This is incredibly weird.  I even tried downloading and installing the 
debian package using gdebi of gtkwifi

Yeah, right.  that worked very well will Orca.  Not?  I'm just totally 
confused.  I've waisted almost half a day just trying to figure this dad 
blamed thing about wireless out.  I'd not think it should take that long to 
configure a wireless connection.  Then, of corse, if I go to 
system/administration/networks, then Orca absol;utely refuses to speak. 
Again, this guy I mentioned above said there is a work around but he wants 
to be paid to help me fix it.  I frankly thought that was kind a silly 
myself.  I know he runs a business, but, this is Ubuntu we're talking here. 
Doesn't our mission state that we are to help each other, not for money, not 
for fame, not for anything jsut help.  I'm not asking you all to hold my 
hand while we cross the street, sota speak, but can someone please just 
direct me on what things to do or check or where online to read up?  I've 
looked on the Orca wiki forums, and have even looked on the Ubuntu forums 
with no luck.  I just know if I cannot get this thing up on wifi then most 
likely I'm not do to frustration, but more due to me being required to have 
an inte3rnet connection with my notebook, I may have to go back to Win XP 
Home, which I r'r'r'r'r'r'r'r'r'really! don't wanna do!

Please please can someone help.  If you think it would be easier just to 
call me and walk me through it... then, it's...

704-899-5290

Please someone help.  I'm totally outta suggestions to myself.


Chris.