Well I had my old AMD Socket A Sempron 3000+ sitting in my closet gathering dust so I decided to install the latest Ubuntu 9.04 and play around with that for fun. It installed prefectly what a fast O.S. compared to Ubuntu 8.10

It just so happens that I installed an Asus 138G V2 wireless card on my other AMD Socket A MBoard Athlon XP 3000+ /400 MHz FSB on an NVidia NForce2 Ultra Chipset (even back in the day a 400Mhz FSB Barton core was rare it's even more so now) I picked it up at Free Geek Computer Recycling for $10.00. The Asus card kept Maxing out my CPU must have been some sort of driver conflict or IRQ conflict whatever strange because it was an Asus Motherboard ?..I played around with it for days and eventually I just took it out and bought another wireless card a Gigabyte for $30.00 works great no problems, I paid $30.00 for the Asus wireless card at the time I thought what a waste of money that was!.

Then I realized that the Asus 138G V2 was compatible with Linux so I threw that one in my Sempron 3000+Rig and Magic it works great!!. After installing various versions of Ubuntu on several different computers this is the first time I actually got the wireless properly configured!. So money not wasted after all.

I'm not to sure about this PSU Powerman It just came with the In- Win case which only cost me $43.00 bucks not bad including the power supply so probably not the best quality PSU.

Any ways here's a few pic's my old Sempron 3000+ running Ubuntu is on the left as you can see where the red electrical tape is I did the Gabriel Torres Low speed case fan trick for free... man that fan was loud running at 12V now its running at a nice quiet 5V.

Tomahawk out

Thanks for sharing this with us. I will try to take a look on one of these "Powerman" power supplies. Stay tuned! ;)

Cheers,
Gabriel.

Hi Tom!

Where did u find that beautiful wallpaper?
I would like to have it on my ubuntu too.

Thanx
Nico

Hi Tom!

Where did u find that beautiful wallpaper?
I would like to have it on my ubuntu too.

Thanx
Nico

Hi Nico,
Yea I liked the black texture looks good, I found it at Desktopnexus in the linux section here's the link

http://technology.desktopnexus.com/cat/linux/3

Tomahawk out

Thank you very much!
/nico

Hello,
O.K. I know, I've gone a little bit Ubuntu crazy here I had so much fun installing this on my old desktop that I decided to install it on my recently acquired old Acer Laptop that's not including my other Acer notebook which has an Intel Pentium M 1.6 Ghz Centrino platform that one is a little bit better than this Intel Celeron 1.3Ghz, however it feels almost as Quick running Linux

I was really surprised Ubuntu is very fast on even an old Celeron Notebook with only 768Mb of DDR 266 ram. the graphics once in a while are a little bit glitchy I think that is a driver problem though... not really sure.

The biggest challenge I had with this O.S. install was getting the built in wireless card to work it took a long few days to figure this one out.

I tried to find a native wireless driver but there is no Linux driver for this card. Then I read through the Ubuntu forums and realised you have to install the ndiswrapper package from the Ubuntu Synaptic package manager, download the correct Windows XP driver onto a USB thumb drive with a different computer, then copy the USB file to the Linux desktop and install the .inf driver file through the Ubuntu windows wireless driver package. Wow I tell you I've never been so happy to see a blinking LED light as much as I did then, after installing the windows driver into the ndiswrapper my wireless card works flawlessly!.

Skype for Linux was very easy to install, Google Earth was a really good challenge on Ubuntu but I got it installed too.

Here are a few picks of the wireless install

Tomahawk out.