Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade - so what happened?

By Steven Rosenberg on August 28, 2010 2:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I haven't had a lot of time on the laptop I upgraded — seemingly successfully — from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 (LTS to LTS).

Everything seemed to go OK, and the Gateway Solo 1450 laptop rebooted into a nice Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid desktop.

Wireless networking didn't work, and the NetworkManager icon was missing (and Networking is no longer a menu choice in Ubuntu). I haven't yet had time to hook it up to a wired Ethernet port so I can see if DHCP remains that way.

If I can get networking into the machine (and I can manually configure if I have to), maybe a reinstall of NetworkManager will bring the icon back to the upper GNOME panel.

Other than that I haven't noticed anything amiss, but I haven't done much beyond wonder why I can't seem to get the WiFi working.

Once I do get some time with the laptop, I'll evaluate further.

I have a pretty good feeling that I can fix the NetworkManager situation, and if I can't it's an easy reinstall of 10.04 ...

So rest easy, Ubuntu people, this one looks like it's going your way.