On 4 February 2013 16:38, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/02/13 15:59, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 4 February 2013 15:48, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Now it has Ubuntu installed, it simply won't boot from >>> the USB stick, no matter how much I juggle the boot order around. Don't >>> ask >>> me why, it just won't. >> >> >> What you have installed on the disk will not affect whether it will >> boot from USB, it should boot before it even looks at what is on the >> disk. Possibly the stick is messed up. Try putting the iso on a DVD >> and boot off that, or put the image on a different stick. It took me >> a little time to work out why wireless did not work on my new laptop >> until I realised that I had to switch it on with a function key. Are >> you sure it was not something like that for you, but now you have >> messed up the drivers so that it now shows unclaimed rather than >> disabled, which is what it would show if it just needed switching on? >> You need to boot the live image to find out. You may just be wasting >> your time otherwise. >> >> Colin > > > That was quite interesting. I looked at the boot order settings on the > Compaq again, and the resident OS on the hard disk appeared to be ahead of > the USB stick, so I changed that. I only have one USB stick, but I > reinstalled Ubuntu 12.10 on it, using the Lenovo, and plugged it into the > Compaq. I was able to bring up a "try Ubuntu without installing" condition > on the Compaq. I know it was the genuine article because all the GUI > settings, eg launchers, background, etc, were default, as is usual during > new installation. My own personal GUI settings are quite different. So, > inside this "try Ubuntu without installing" condition, I checked the Network > Controller using the sudo lshw -C network instruction, which I now know by > heart. And it was still unclaimed. > > There are no hardware switches for the wireless network known to me, though > there is a hardware switch for Bluetooth (the f12 button).
OK, that sounds like a dead end. Sorry for sending you off down a dead end. Still, at least you can boot off usb again, and have confirmed that the wireless does not work out of the box. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
