[mdlug-discuss] Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10 Easy Upgrade

[Novak, Louis (L.M.)]

Quelle coincidence.

I did the same for my HP laptop. Worked like a charm.

I didn't even bother to back up my files beforehand.

Confidence or foolishness, you decide. ;-)

-- 
Louis Novak  lnovak1 at ford.com   (313)248-6788 
Ford Motor Co., IT Competency Center
Ask me about my Mercury Mariner Hybrid  



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mdlug-discuss-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bart
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:00 PM
To: mdlug-discuss at mdlug.org
Subject: [mdlug-discuss] Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10 Easy Upgrade

Hello Everyone,
	This past weekend I upgraded an IBM T30 Thinkpad from Ubuntu
6.06 to 6.10. I've been having problems with the machine freezing,
seemingly at random, network manager not automatically connecting,
hyperlinks not opening the appropriate program, etc despite my best
attempts to set it up properly. So I was trying to solve a lot of
problems based in part on my experiences loading 6.10 on my son's T22
Thinkpad. You might get the idea I'm partial to Thinkpads???? ;-)
	At any rate I decided to upgrade using the suggested method,
Update Manager <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades>. I did
back things up as suggested and made notes as well. The update itself
was remarkable in it's lack of trouble. I elected to replace all the
files when asked if I wanted to. This part took several hours to
complete. The next morning I went back in and following the directions
here
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/IntersilPrism25Wavela
n?highlight=%28WifiDocs%2FDevice%29>
 and here <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadT30>
adjusted the settings for my Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
minipci wireless adapter and suspend options in the files specified. I
also disabled hibernate, this seemed to help? Of course I had to go
through and  check all  the personal settings in the various logins as
well. 
	All seems to be well. All the issues I was looking to solve were
solved and I appear to have a much better machine for it! WooHoo!

Regards,
--
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net

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