Ubuntu live and linksys.

[Steven Swift]

I am not sure if this is the right group-- please point me right if not.

I used a Ubuntu Live 5.1 to try it out on my old IBM 600E laptop. It took
a while but things seem to be okay (I've used Suse before on other PCs).

The problems occurred after I shut down and rebooted the computer in
its normal Win98SE mode. It was pretty clobbered. Video settings and colors
were messed up, but easy to fix. What I haven't been able to fix is getting
the Linksys WUSB11 wireless adapter to work. It had worked flawlessly for
a couple of years until this boot. I've re-installed the drivers and it is
still stupid.

Could the Ubuntu live have done this, or did it just croak coincidentally.

Any ideas on what happened?

TIA,

Steve.
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[Colin Wilson]

> The problems occurred after I shut down and rebooted the computer in

> its normal Win98SE mode. It was pretty clobbered. Video settings and colors
> were messed up, but easy to fix.
> Could the Ubuntu live have done this, or did it just croak coincidentally.

I don`t use linux myself full time, but do use live CDs on a regular
basis for educational / system recovery purposes.

If you were on a bootable live CD I think its just sad coincidence - a
bootable live CD doesn`t alter anything on the fixed drives unless you
tell it to, and Win98SE will be formatted as FAT32 which is well
supported for both reads and writes from within linux (NTFS support is
now very good, but still classed as "beta" afaik)

If the video (display) was *completely* shot, it "may" have been caused
by linux - I remember back in the early (5.x) days of Redhat it was
possible to damage your monitor if you manually configured the display
incorrectly, but this isn`t your particular problem.

Are other USB devices working ok ?

Can you test the adaptor on any other PC to confirm if its really dead ?

[Conor]

In article <e2ettm$puj$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>, Steven Swift says...

> I am not sure if this is the right group-- please point me right if not.
>
> I used a Ubuntu Live 5.1 to try it out on my old IBM 600E laptop. It took
> a while but things seem to be okay (I've used Suse before on other PCs).
>
> The problems occurred after I shut down and rebooted the computer in
> its normal Win98SE mode. It was pretty clobbered. Video settings and colors
> were messed up, but easy to fix. What I haven't been able to fix is getting
> the Linksys WUSB11 wireless adapter to work. It had worked flawlessly for
> a couple of years until this boot. I've re-installed the drivers and it is
> still stupid.
>
> Could the Ubuntu live have done this, or did it just croak coincidentally.
>

It was conincidence. Linux doesn't do anything to alter hardware and
neither does a LiveCD write to the HDD. Read from it, maybe, but not
write to it.


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Conor,

Same shit, different day.