This must be my lucky day. I haven’t mentioned it here, but I recently updated to Hardy Heron, without a hitch. All my old problems with Bluetooth, crashes, and so forth, disappeared. It may have been so smooth because I updated the HP Pavillion bios (in Vista), which I think was previously causing untold problems. [...]

If you glance at the previous post you will see that after a couple of weeks of trying, a friend helped me set up wireless in Xp. The next task was to do so in Ubuntu. I thought it would take a week or so of trying this and that, but then I remembered the [...]

After a couple of weeks of trying, a good and patient friend helped me set up wireless on XP. In the end we had to use the bridge method. I have a Zyxel modem and Linksys Wireless-G 2.4Ghz router. The Zyxel is now set up in bridge mode, linked by an ethernet cable to [...]