O.k. the network support thread seemed like the best place that fit my problem, even though it seems a little more encompasing than that...
So, I download and burn the DVD of Dapper Drake, install goes awsome (it pwns the Breezy Badgers installer...thats the last time I tried linux by the way, when Breezy came out).
From my previous experience with Breezy I knew I had to get ndis wrapper for my Broadcom card.
This leads me to my first problem....I can't get ndiswrapper....I could not freakin figure out how to get the repository on the DVD to work, it wasn't on the sources.list automatically like everyone says it is, and, obviosly I have no internet to download the ndiswrapper...Finally I went in manually and found the .deb package for ndiswrapper (I am soooo glad that it didn't need any dependiencies...).
Ok, next step, I use source-o-matic, and get a coolio correct sources.list (or at least thought I did). This is when I noticed my second problem, my internet is going slow as crap, like as slow as 2 bytes a second, I mean dial up slow (I have a DSL connection with a linksys router by the way, so that is not exactly normal speeds).
I wrote it off at first, but then when I tried to do apt-get update all hell broke loose...Like half the official repositories would time out, and it would not even connect at all to some, it would get like half way done downloading from a particular repository, and just time out in the middle (which probably corrupted something
).
I got to thinking that maybe if I got the newest source files for ndiswrapper and compiled them myself, it would improve things, the problem is I can not get build-essential because of what I assume to be corrupt apt-get headers (when I go apt-get install build-essential it says it is not available, but is referred to by another package; Package build essential has no install canditate...).
I thought I could just get it manually off the DVD like ndiswrapper, but nope, not that easy, there are like fiftly million dependencies(obvious exaggeration) that I would need to install manually
! So, that obviously wasn't going to work...
So to sum up my plight (skip straight to this if you are tired of my ranting
):
A.)How to you add the repository that is on the instillation DVD to the sources.list?
B.)Why is my broadcom wireless card with ndiswrapper going so freaking slow?
C.)What the hell is going on with apt-get that is having so much trouble connecting with all the repositories...(This is probably related to question B but I am not sure)
Just so you know I don't hate kubuntu, in fact besides those problems, it pwns the last version. It is a million times more stable; breezy crashed on me crap loads for random reasons, thats why I gave up on linux last time...Dapper seems to be like a rock, super stable, which is awsome; and all the other distro's I've tried...well they suck compared to any version of ubuntu...
Please help me get this working! If I can't make it work, I may have to go back to windoze...I can't stand to go back; you wouldn't let that happen would you
thnx in advance from another linux n00b
So, I download and burn the DVD of Dapper Drake, install goes awsome (it pwns the Breezy Badgers installer...thats the last time I tried linux by the way, when Breezy came out).
From my previous experience with Breezy I knew I had to get ndis wrapper for my Broadcom card.
This leads me to my first problem....I can't get ndiswrapper....I could not freakin figure out how to get the repository on the DVD to work, it wasn't on the sources.list automatically like everyone says it is, and, obviosly I have no internet to download the ndiswrapper...Finally I went in manually and found the .deb package for ndiswrapper (I am soooo glad that it didn't need any dependiencies...).
Ok, next step, I use source-o-matic, and get a coolio correct sources.list (or at least thought I did). This is when I noticed my second problem, my internet is going slow as crap, like as slow as 2 bytes a second, I mean dial up slow (I have a DSL connection with a linksys router by the way, so that is not exactly normal speeds).
I wrote it off at first, but then when I tried to do apt-get update all hell broke loose...Like half the official repositories would time out, and it would not even connect at all to some, it would get like half way done downloading from a particular repository, and just time out in the middle (which probably corrupted something
). I got to thinking that maybe if I got the newest source files for ndiswrapper and compiled them myself, it would improve things, the problem is I can not get build-essential because of what I assume to be corrupt apt-get headers (when I go apt-get install build-essential it says it is not available, but is referred to by another package; Package build essential has no install canditate...).
I thought I could just get it manually off the DVD like ndiswrapper, but nope, not that easy, there are like fiftly million dependencies(obvious exaggeration) that I would need to install manually
! So, that obviously wasn't going to work... So to sum up my plight (skip straight to this if you are tired of my ranting
):A.)How to you add the repository that is on the instillation DVD to the sources.list?
B.)Why is my broadcom wireless card with ndiswrapper going so freaking slow?
C.)What the hell is going on with apt-get that is having so much trouble connecting with all the repositories...(This is probably related to question B but I am not sure)
Just so you know I don't hate kubuntu, in fact besides those problems, it pwns the last version. It is a million times more stable; breezy crashed on me crap loads for random reasons, thats why I gave up on linux last time...Dapper seems to be like a rock, super stable, which is awsome; and all the other distro's I've tried...well they suck compared to any version of ubuntu...
Please help me get this working! If I can't make it work, I may have to go back to windoze...I can't stand to go back; you wouldn't let that happen would you
thnx in advance from another linux n00b
...Thats one of the fastests replies I have ever seen on any forum, let alone a really helpfull one 
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