Flash player won't install; wireless doesn't work. Ubuntu sucks!!! It can't seem to detect the hardware! You need a degree in engineering to use the program!

[Tom]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

You can't even make the program do the most simple installs that windows does automatically. LOSERS!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

What hardware?

Wireless works perfectly for most. What problem do you have? Again, what hardware?

Flash will be a lot better when Ubuntu installs the Adobe 64 bit flash for you, instead of the 32-bit version with wrappers. In the meantime, you can grab it from Adobe, put the one file in place, and Flash works just fine.

See http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

[Tom (tom-vacaville)]

Thank you for responding. Frankly I do not know anything about computers. With Windows I can follow on screen instructions and have never had a problem installing anything; Windows handles it all.

I have tried installing Flash, but to no avail. I do not know how to do it, and Ubuntu won't do it for me. When I go to the download site, Adobe offers several different versions of Flash for Linux and it's impossible to know which one to download. So I tried them all and Ubuntu does nothing. I put each of them on the desktop, but from there nothing happens. I click on them and nothing.... I feel like I have to be a computer engineer. Linux seems to be very user-unfriendly compared to Windows.

As for wireless difficulties, I have a Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g receiver in my laptop which is an emachine laptop M6805 with a Mobile AMD Athlon 64, Processor 3000+ 1.59 GHz with 1.25 GB of RAM. I have tried everything to connect the wireless to no avail. I've spent more than a day trying to get Ubuntu working, so you can imagine my frustration.

Thank you for responding, and I hope you'll excuse my colorful remarks earlier....

-Tom

> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:08:56 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 336002] Re: Flash player won't install; wireless doesn't work. Ubuntu sucks!!! It can't seem to detect it's own dick! You need a fucking degree in engineering to use the fucking program!
>
> What hardware?
>
> Wireless works perfectly for most. What problem do you have? Again,
> what hardware?
>
> Flash will be a lot better when Ubuntu installs the Adobe 64 bit flash
> for you, instead of the 32-bit version with wrappers. In the meantime,
> you can grab it from Adobe, put the one file in place, and Flash works
> just fine.
>
> See http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Flash player won't install; wireless doesn't work. Ubuntu sucks!!! It can't seem to detect it's own dick! You need a fucking degree in engineering to use the fucking program!
> + Flash player won't install; wireless doesn't work. Ubuntu sucks!!! It can't seem to detect the hardware! You need a degree in engineering to use the program!
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> - You idiots can't even make the fucking program do the most simple
> - installs that windows does automatically. LOSERS!
> + You can't even make the program do the most simple installs that windows
> + does automatically. LOSERS!
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
>
> --
> Flash player won't install; wireless doesn't work. Ubuntu sucks!!! It can't seem to detect the hardware! You need a degree in engineering to use the program!
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336002
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[Mephisto (ferrylandzaat)]

Did you try just going to a flash-using website and having firefox figure it out? I think that worked fine last time i tried...

[Mephisto (ferrylandzaat)]

Oh, and as for the broadcom, it probably needs firmware. Try installing b43-fwcutter from synaptic and see if that makes the wireless work. Last time i used it, it'll download firmware during package installation, and you should be able to connect a wireless network from the networkmanager applet after (maybe needs a reboot first though).

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .