After a few weeks of no time and frustration with wireless not working and slow overall performance. I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.4 and using the LXDE desktop
the speed and usability improved wireless works even in headless mode. I then did a source install of ROS fuetre the only change i had to make was remove the j8 from the make command. part 2 of the install kept failing with dependence issues but using the new rosdep install <name> helped resolve most errors. I have a issue with dummy threads error but it appears to be only a slight inconvenience. The main stumbling block is yaml-cpp is required but the source install i did is not recognized so navigation wont install at the moment. But at least i can drive the Qbot around using the arbotix controller and the turtlebot joy stick works. sound is not working and the web cam under cheese only shows a blank screen. Overall not a bad result for the weekend
Peter
