After a week on Intrepid Ibex
November 8, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun
I am glad about how shiny it is XD It could be just the theme that I am noticing for now as well as the other user interface changes, but for me, it’s still a big thing.
For one, I love the shutdown option which is now part of the user menu on the panel. And how the the desktop looks clean, overall! This is thanks to the Ubuntu team and the Gnome team 
I love what they did!
I have yet to test the use of a mobile 3G provider with my laptop. I am mainly just using wifi from the office or at home. Though I’ve been having problem when I hibernate the laptop. When I wake up the laptop from hibernate, it can’t seem to detect any wireless networks even though there is one available. This happened twice this past week. I’d better observe this again next week.
Another quirk I encountered was that F-spot was the application opening the directories on my laptop when I try to access it from the main menu. Hrm. Must be an F-spot setting?
I also appreciate the tabbed view on Nautilus when moving files from various directories. My desktop won’t look too cluttered this way. One of my co-workers seems to want to update now after seeing that it was possible already. He is still on Hardy and he installed a different file manager because of that.
How’s it been using Intrepid Ibex for you?
I too have been suffering from the NetworkManager hibernate/suspend bug. I figured out a workaround that I scripted, so you can still hibernate or suspend your laptop. I sometimes use a wired connection, too, so I added lines for that adapter as well. If you run the script with gksudo (or the KDE equivalent), you won’t have to open a terminal. BTW, my wireless adapter is an Atheros-based card, so replace the network device name and module name with the appropriate names.
#!/bin/bash
invoke-rc.d NetworkManager stop
ifconfig ath0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
modprobe -r ath_pci
modprobe -r tg3
modprobe tg3
modprobe ath_pci
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig ath0 up
invoke-rc.d NetworkManager start
The control script for NetworkManager is in “camel-case”, so you’ll need to watch that. tg3 is the driver for my laptop’s wired adapter, as I mentioned above. So far I haven’t had any luck making this run automatically upon resuming from suspend/hibernate, so I just hit Alt-F2 and execute it from there. Give it a try and see if it works for you.
Hi, Red Five! Thanks for the tip. I’d try that later too and give you a heads up if it works for me
i hope it does! *crosses fingers*
After some further investigation on Launchpad, it seems that most people who have this problem have an Atheros wireless adapter. If you do too, it should do the trick.
Hi Red Five,
worked for me perfectly. Thanks a lot.