Re: [orca-list] Newbie to this whole ordeal, and a couple of questions!

[Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi,
Trying to answer the first question, you've to install a package called 
b43-fwcutter.

In my case I connected to internet using eth0 and typed:
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
After install this package reboot your machine.
The bad news is that I had serious problems configuring my wireless card 
to work with wpa encryption when running 8.04.

On 13-11-2008 16:03, Tj wrote:
> Hello,
> First of all, I would like to say I'm eager to beome a member of the 
> linux+orca community, and advance my computer skills even farther.
> By doing so, I have a couple of questions.  I'm running Ubuntu V 8.04 
> on an HP Pavilion DV 5000 series laptop.  I'm a college student who 
> loves to do nothing more than browse the internet in class!  I know I 
> know, bad kid.  Anyhow, More seriously, my wireless card doesn't 
> work.  I entered the shell and typed lspci, and was able to tell I've 
> got a brodcom card, so it's being recognised.  I don't, however, know 
> how to get that darn card to reach out and say welcome to the loving 
> embracing world of the world wide web, and you don't even have a cord 
> to do it!
> Second question is, I downloaded skype, and it's on my desktop (Wired 
> connection).  I also went to the sisadmin site, and did the tasks I 
> had to to get my system rights...I think I did them right anyway.  But 
> when I try to install skype after a reboot, I allowed administrative 
> access, and I still get the loving, and frustrating, lack of no 
> speach.  Is there an explination, or what I did wrong?
> Thanks,
> Tj
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