Big Nell - HOPEFULLY A Final Hurdle Passed!

She's been working fine in Ubuntu 11.10 for the last week or so. Most importantly, I've been able to do my job! Well, most of it anyway...all except for listening to the voice mails. All of my calls are routed through a computer program, which keeps track of each of them including statistics and voice mails. To listen to voice mails, however, requires Flash. And I have been unable to install Adobe Flash.

I have gone from forum to forum, from troubleshooting site to troubleshooting site; I have copied umpteen lines of code into my terminal, installed package managers and Firefox add-ons. I have added and removed files numerous times, and was about at the point of (probably foolishly) uninstalling and reinstalling Ubuntu. Yet again. Even though it's the only thing that's mostly worked on this machine.

Then I found a post that I had somehow missed. GarvinRick4 (is there REALLY a GarvinRick1 GarvinRick2 and GarvinRick3 already??) posted the simplest of the simple fixes. So simple that I was sure it couldn't possibly work...yet, it did! And now I finally have Flash working on my ubuntu install! Does it really matter how I missed it before this?

One last thing: the other distros and versions I had tried wouldn't find or accept my wifi. So far since Ubuntu 11.10 I haven't unplugged the router cable from Big Nell. I'm kinda afraid - what if she won't only ignore the wifi, but will no longer work on a wired connection either? But I know I have to do it, if for no other reason than I will be rearranging my living room for its summer arrangement soon, and my chair won't be right next to the modem!

So that will be next. But not today :).