Getting the DWA 125 Wireless Dongle to Work in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

I have a laptop with networking interfaces eth0 (Atheros AR8152) and wlan0 (Broadcom 4727) which are not supported by the kernel version of 10.04 LTS (2.6.32-21-generic). I needed a kernel version 2.6.37 or higher to get these 2 interfaces working. But since I had no Internet connection, the best way, based on the answer(s) to my query, was to download the kernel manually from http://packages.ubuntu.com and install it in it's binary (.deb) format. When I tried searching for them in the package site, I saw that these linux-generic or linux-*-generic files had multiple dependencies so I thought twice of installing them this way. Dependencies is actually one of the top reason why I get freaked out about installing Linux distros without an Internet connection.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Initial Impression

I recently finished installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my laptop. Having used Ubuntu before, I can see that there has been a massive push for improvement. Some changes include the Ubuntu rebranding. Most notable is the default theme which is no longer brown and now has the Close - Maximize - Minimize window control buttons on the upper left corner ala Mac OS X style.

The last version of Ubuntu that I extensively used was 9.04 but I had problems with the Wifis so it only took me a month and I decided to take it down and return to the Redmond-centric OS. But much has changed in 10.04 LTS. Almost everything basic works out of the box. The Wifis is now easily configurable and connects instantly after the initial setup of access point, etc. In fact, I have removed Windows XP from my computer and installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as the main, and only, OS.